Re: [Sheflug] Re: deleted data

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:26 27/02/02 +0000, Eric E Moore wrote:
>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 :)

Could I use this method to make a bootable CD for use as a rescue disk?


Steve


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