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List:       openbsd-newbies
Subject:    Re: dd'ing a cdrom
From:       "Jeffrey Lim" <jfs.world () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-04 4:06:14
Message-ID: 4b3125cc0605032106n3b10902bva663c7293bf7be4c () mail ! gmail ! com
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ahh, ok, thanks!!! it's "raw"....

-Jeff

On 4/30/06, Tony@servacorp.com <Tony@servacorp.com> wrote:
> Generally, dd tends to be used with raw devices.
> There is nothing to do to handle errors
> (except switch devices -- which is not really an answer)
>
> Handling errors requires putting the stuff somewhere else
> which requires knowing enough of the target filesystem
> so that the stuff will be recovered from the alternate
> location instead of attempted from the originally
> attempted location.
>
> dd is very good at moving filesystems from one place to
> another without any idea of what is in the filesystem.
>
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