On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Joseph V Moss wrote: > > That's still wrong. skip= specifies the number of *blocks* to skip. > > So: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mypartitions skip=446 bs=1 count=64 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > dd if=mypartitions of=/dev/hda skip=446 bs=1 and since the blocksize above is 1, it works just fine. come on, folks, this ain't rocket surgery. it's just "dd". rday p.s. top posting. bad. very bad. -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
