On Friday 09 June 2006 02:12, Dave Barton wrote:
* make a backup of the HD, or the partition *first*, e.g.: dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img or dd if=/dev/hda21 of=hda21.img
I am about to take a shot at recovering files from one of the reiser partitions on the same disk. For this I am going to follow your tip about using dd to make a backup image. I understand how to create the image, but could you (or someone) tell me how to restore from the image if it should be necessary.
'if' means in-file, 'of' means out-file. Just swap the filenames: dd of=/dev/hda if=hda.img or dd of=/dev/hda21 if=hda21.img Works only if you write it to the disk where it came from. 'dd --help' and 'man dd' might also be usefull. ;P Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com