Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/topic/3836881 By: raysatiro
You have an image file of your linux drive on your windows box? If I was doing testing like that I would boot the image in a virtual machine. I like vmware workstation because I can take snapshots and if I choose regress to a snapshot. Snapshots become useless if you try to increase the size of the virtual disk though, and they take up a lot of space. re degradation over time, I have experienced that (not specific to dd or gnuwin) but never by so much. I can't attribute the cause to any particular thing. I'm interested in what solution you find to that problem. You could try another version of dd, available here: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd I use version 0.5. 7efcd6af6a0fda490b42e0ed4c5aa969079040d1 *dd.exe The usage is slightly different, and depending on the version it reports different statistics. Note that in the 0.6 betas: --progress output is in the same unit as bs is specified with As opposed to the way it is 0.5, reporting in bytes. A note of caution (for anyone) that [b]you could totally decimate your hard drive if you don't know what you're doing with dd[/b], or setting block size, or if you don't understand the way windows object links and drive letters can change. for example windows assigns volume4 and drive letter C to my main windows partition when I boot with my raid plugged in, but when I boot without the raid plugged in it assigns volume2 and drive letter C. ]GUID[ link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 fixed media Mounted on \\.\c: So you'd want to use a combination of winobj,, disk management console, dd --list, etc so you can confirm what you're writing to. It's a mistake to assume, oh, well, I always image to volume 5 or whatever so I'll just do that. _____________________________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this topic or entire forum. To stop monitoring this topic visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/topic/3836881/unmonitor To stop monitoring this forum visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/unmonitor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
