Hi. On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:48:29 -0400 Ethan Rosenberg <erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com> wrote:
> Dear List - > > I am having trouble w/ dd. I am sure that it is probably a stupid mistake. You've made four mistakes indeed. > root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www of=/dev/sdb1/ bs=2048 > dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdb1/’: Is a directory You're doing it wrong - /dev/sdb1/ implies /dev/sdb1 is a directory, and it's a block device. > root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www of=/dev/sdb/ bs=2048 > dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdb/’: Is a directory Same thing. > root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www of=/media/lin50/ bs=2048 > dd: failed to open ‘/media/lin50/’: Is a directory While dd can be used to copy a directory, it cannot be used alone for this task. Try this: (cd /var/www; tar cf - *) | (cd /media/lin50; tar xf -) Or, just: cp -a /var/www/* /media/lin50 Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140811091531.0f39594927cbfd7375df8...@gmail.com
