On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, g wrote:
i am familiar with the dd options of -skip and -seek. just not familiar with proper way to use dd with cdrecord. can someone elaborate?
cdrecord can read from a pipe. The data does not have to be a *.iso file. dd can get the data back by reading the raw device. I've burned CDs by cp-ing to the raw device, but filtering the data through a burner program is probably more reliable. IIRC I read it back with tar. Instead of running as root, I changed permissions on the raw device. OP's simplest solution is probably to use cp from the raw source disk to a target raw disk. If reliability is an issue, he can make two copies. Probably the target could also be a raw USB stick. Copying entire disks can take a while. Using a file for a target risks running into file system limitations. The one that comes to mind is file size limits. Regardless of how its done, a cloned drive has the same UUID and partition labels as the original. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
