-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-09-09 21:07, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Not responding directly to your question, but you know I make a lot of "dd-equivalent" disk images.
I prefer to create EWF formatted images. They have embedded CRC checksums as well as an overall hash. You can verify their integrity without having to have an external hash file to compare against.
Ah, that's interesting. I don't know if I need that much, though. I'll explain my purpose. I have a double boot laptop, windows 7 / Linux. Microsoft proposes that I update to Windows 10. Before doing that, I want to create an image backup that allows me to restore Linux, if destroyed, or W7, if I want to go back to it. Thus I want the image for a limited time only: I either continue using W10, or restore W7.
ewfacquire is in the distro and will create EWF formatted images. It will also split them up into 2GB segment files (by default). image.E01, image.E02, ....
You can use ewfverify to check the CRCs and hash verify the image as valid.
If not, does it store recovery data to repair it?
When you want to access it as a linear dd image equivalent you use ewfmount.
The only confusing part (for me) is if you want to do a partition mount, you have to do 2 mounts:
ewfmount first exposes the EWF image as a single large virtual disk
Then a nomal loop mount is needed to mount a specific partition.
I can try, I guess... I'm installing now libewf2 and libewf2-tools to try. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXwlakACgkQja8UbcUWM1z12AD8Cqoo76/Ifq9t5hcL0VgUHbUL lrBELsM104fPB6GLkwUA/iwWB9LTG3RKGWDpfndX3wlAqjxUTAxv3yUIoBdp6pUo =SeTn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org