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Re: LIP General issues
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
> |If the victim has a virgin disk of equal size, it is even possible to
> |
> | `dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=18k`
> |
> |and sit back and enjoy the ride.
>
> A few points about that:
>
> 1. If you read a mounted partition, then things might change on the
> filesystem while you do that (block re-allocated and free'd, times
> updated etc...), ending with inconsistant destination filesystem.
> You could run 'fsck' after that, but why get yourself into this in
> the first place?
then remount it read-only :-)
> 3. Last thing - when accessing disks this way (sequencial) on real unix,
> I prefer to bypass the entire kernel caching and use the raw devices,
> but as I looked at it right now, I couldn't find raw IDE devices on
> my 2.0.10 machine, do they exist?
ha? /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are not raw enough?!
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