Re: dd to linux partition

2010-12-22 Thread Fergus
>> I installed the fs-driver and it found the drives/file systems >> .. however it seems to think the linux partition is unformated Oh dear. I'm afraid I can't mimic your difficulty. I checked that my 3 Linux partitions are all accessible to dd even though some are on an extended partition, lik

Re: dd to linux partition

2010-12-21 Thread jwzumwalt
t34_lin1_`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S`" SOURCE="/dev/sda5" DIR="/cygdrive/f/$STAMP" TARGET="$DIR/$STAMP.img.gz" dd if=$SOURCE | gzip > $TARGET dd: opening `/dev/sda5': No such

Re: dd to linux partition

2010-12-20 Thread Fergus
> I've never tried it for other than ID b i.e. ext2 ^^ 83 Also inodes have to be 128 bytes or less. I think current versions of mke2fs default to 256, so you have to use mke2fs -I128 when setting up the Linux parti

Re: dd to linux partition

2010-12-20 Thread Fergus
>> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/cygrive/f/sda1.img # windows, works!!! >> dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/cygrive/f/sda5.img # linux, will not work On my machine: ~> /usr/sbin/fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes .. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 *

dd to linux partition

2010-12-20 Thread jwzumwalt
.img # linux, will not work error msg says 'dev/sda5': No such file or directory -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/dd-to-linux-partition-tp30502781p30502781.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://