On 11 July, 2009 - stephen bond sent me these 0,6K bytes: > Carson, > > please provide an example how to read bytes. I talk about cylinder because I > don't know better. > I need to read from a partition which shows as /dev/hda3 under Gparted with > starting sector xxxx ending sector zzzzz. > > under solaris I think it becomes /dev/dsk/c0d0p3 > > I tried > dd if=/dev/dsk/c0d0p3 ibs=256 > hoping to read the first 256 bytes but it started streaming everything > and beeping non-stop. even ^C could not stop the beeping.
Add of=/where/you/want/the/data unless you want the raw dump to your screen, which is what you just got.. Add count=1 if you just want one block.. etc. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
