dd problem

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 22:43:22 UTC 2010


Georg von Zengen wrote:
> hi Karl,
> 
> may their is a directory called "nita" on your portable hard drive
> 
> Georg
> 
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> 	I am on 9.04 and trying to dd from a hard drive to a portable 
>> hard drive. This I think should work but it errors out 
>> complaining that /media/disk/nita is a directory.
>>
>> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/media/disk/nita bs=2048 conv=notrunc
>>
>> This used to work fine. Why not now?
>>
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
>>
> 
	Yes the directory nita does exist.

73 Karl


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