Why not? You're only reading, and byte by byte at that. On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to feed a mounted partition as an input to dd? > For example, say that I have a partition /dev/hda1 mounted as /. Say also that I have another partition /dev/hda2 mounted as /hda2. So, is it safe to do something such as: > "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/hda2/image.img"? > Thanks. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
