Just to be precise, I am not trying to do an ISO image of a running root FS, but of a USB attached disk.
… Le 15 déc. 2010 à 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:11:45 +0100, bsd <b...@todoo.biz> wrote: >> Is there a way to dd to a file to create an iso image and then restore >> (still using dd from this image). I only have one IDE <--> USB cable >> so this is the reason why It'd more simple for me to create an iso >> image of the disk and then restore. >> >> Using dump won't be very useful because I won't be able to get the >> first 63 segments where boot info are written, I need something of >> lower level (obviously dd will be my friend). >> >> Thanks everyone. I'll try to post the line code once I got It up and >> running. > > No dd(1) cannot do that. > > What you _can_ do is boot into single-user mode, and then use mkisofs > with burncd or growisofs from dvd+rw-tools to burn an image while still > in single-user mode. The only user mode process is your root shell at > that point, so you can be relatively sure there are no major changes > happening somewhere at the filesystem while you are still dumping it to > a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disk. > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ---------> Grégory Bernard Director <--------- ---------------> www.osnet.eu <--------------- --> Your provider of OpenSource appliances <-- –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– OSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetO _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
