I wrote:
> Why do you think you can't use dd? It just deals in blocks, and as long as
> you are using raw devices the VFS never gets involved.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Darxus writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/c/linux> dd if=home.tgz of=/dev/null
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> That was my 2.6gb file. I would say that means it didn't work....
Of course it didn't work: you went through the file system. Since you
gave a file name but no block count, dd asked the file system how big
file was and got the predictable answer. Try either giving dd a block
count or catting the file into dd. If neither of those work you'll
have to read from the raw device.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
