You can dd the image directly to the physical device using the following command: dd if=/home/'image' of=/dev/hdb As Jason stated previously, this is a bit copy procedure. So, if your image file is a good dd'd image of a Solaris (ufs) partition, then the same filesystem (ufs) will be laid down on /dev/hdb. FWIW, I like to use: dd if=image of=/dev/hdb conv=noerror,sync 2>image-err.log my input file (if=image) get placed on the output device (of=/dev/hdb) and if an error condition arises, the dd continues and just pads the area with zeros and captures the errors to a log file. The only time I don't use this is when I'm imaging boot disks and want to make sure that there are no errors at all. HTH, Jane ----Original Message Follows---- Hmm. In that case, is there any way I can move this image to hdb without it becoming ext2? -Sally > You don't need to format a drive before putting an image back down with dd. > In fact, dd will totally overwrite any formatting already done as it is a > byte by byte copy. > > Jason > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
