On 9/3/19 10:56 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 03Sep2019 22:03, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a flash drive with about four partitions on is.
Lets call it /dev/sdc.
Can I tar sdc or am I stuck with tarring the partitions?
Any drawback to this?
Depends what you want from it. If the partitions have real filesystems
in them then mount them and tar the mounted trees.
Otherwise there's no benefit to using tar, which stores named files and
their data. Just cat the flash drive to flash_drive.img and there you
are: a usable drive image file - plain data.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you!
Sounds like dd is the better option
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