On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Seth Van Oort <svanoor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm wondering if there's some special combination of options I
> have to use to copy from a file to a device. I have had no problem
> copy from a device to a file with the '--copy-devices' option,
> however, when I try to copy from the file back to the device, it
> always overwrites my device node with a regular file. Any ideas?
Just a shot in the dark, but from my memory devices are special files.
To write data to them, you append data to it. IE:
echo "Hello, world!" >> /dev/mydevice
Or some-such thing. (I might be thinking of stuff in /proc).
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