Re: [Sheflug] Re: deleted data

[Eric E Moore <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damian Bamforth <damian.b [at] btinternet.com> writes:

> haha - alright... maybe if I asked it in a slightly different way...
> after hooking it up a fat 32 drive to my linux box, how do I map a full
> image of everything that was on the drive, and copy that image to hda1

dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/somedirectory/disk.img

will make a really big file with an image of the disk on it.  If the
drive's too large to fit in a single file, that might be a problem,
but you can start scanning the disk part-way through (using the "skip"
parameter).  Read the dd man page :)

-- 
Eric E. Moore
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