like use the diskutils(mac only I think) to find the drive and dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/Users/drandolph/copy.img bs=1024k
or dd bs=512 if=/dev/rXX# of=/some_dir/foo.dmg conv=noerror,sync or pipe gzip in there to speed it up and reduce the size of the img etc..... dd bs=512 if=/dev/rXX# conv=noerror,sync | gzip -9 > foo.dmg.gz The bs designates block size, and the if=/dev/rXX# is the UNIX path to the actual disk device. noerror -- which just slides over the hard stops, the mode sync fills the image with nulls. some people complain that the sync option creates files that are unreadable, but I dont know about that. You can do it without that option if you want. Just my 2 cents...... On 6/11/07, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote:
has he tried dd with gzip? On 6/11/07, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > A guy I work with here is having problems copying big hard drives from > his firewire drive to his OS X computer, and is having problems with it > crapping out mid copy. > > I suggested just doing it all at the command line ("cp -rf --relpy=YES > /from/here /to/here") sort of thing > > Anyone have any other suggestions? Particularly ones that are either > easy for newbies or give you a detailed report of what might have crapped > out. > > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
-- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
