On 26 February 2010 10:06, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote: >> >> ... >> As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with >> firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't >> know of anyway to resume a dd. > > NAME > dd - convert and copy a file > > SYNOPSIS > dd [OPERAND]... > dd OPTION > > DESCRIPTION > Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands. > > bs=BYTES > read and write BYTES bytes at a time (also see ibs=,obs=) > > ... > skip=BLOCKS > skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input > > > HTH, > > Stroller. >
Hey, shiny! I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not sarcastic, except to mock myself). ~daid
