how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Will Partain
Given a whole dump blob that has landed in holding disk, I can look at it (for example, to answer the question Why is that so _big_?) with: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head This is pretty well documented. What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in

Re: how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Will Partain
I asked: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in this case (1GB chunks): Alexander Jolk suggested (one of two possibilities): Well, you either do some shell magic: for i in foo.verilab.com._.1*; do dd if=$i

Re: how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:14:44PM +, Will Partain wrote: I asked: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in this case (1GB chunks): Alexander Jolk suggested (one of two possibilities): Well, you

Re: how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Alexander Jolk wrote: Will Partain wrote: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head [...] What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in this case (1GB chunks): Well, you either do some shell magic: for i in foo.verilab.com._.1*; do dd if=$i bs=32k