chill wrote:
>
> I had a look at a few of the compression tools, including tar, and I
> couldn't find any options to limit the input to the first X bytes, in
> the way that dd allows.
>
You won't - you'll have to use dd (or head -c) for that.
>
> >
Code:
--------------------
> > dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=2170880 | gzip -c | dd
of=/mnt/Music/DiskImages/pCPLounge.img.gz
--------------------
> >
>
The second dd is a no-op.
Code:
--------------------
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=2170880 | gzip -9 >
/mnt/Music/DiskImages/pCPLounge.img.gz
--------------------
SW: 'Web UI for LMS'
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