dd problem

[Karl F. Larsen]

charlie derr wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Georg von Zengen wrote:
>>> so you have to delete it, chose another name or creating a new file in
>>> "nita". dd can only write into files e.g.
>>> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/media/disk/nita/sdb1 bs=2048 conv=notrunc
>>>
>>> Georg
>>>
>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>> 	I never tried that script. I will need to do so. But bet you 
>> a can of cheap beer it doesn't work. To get the job done I had 
>> to use:
>>
>> 	sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdg1
>>
>> and that worked fine. But it fouled up my portable hard drive. 
>> I hope I can delete the dam windows files and save my backup 
>> of this computer!!!
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
> 
> I don't drink beer but my wife does, so if it's good beer I'll take that bet.
> 
> The advice Georg provided was sound.  Instead of trying to replace a directory with a file (what you were originally 
> trying to do), you'd have been better served to try to write to a file inside the directory as Georg suggested (because 
> that wouldn't have erased all the other data you might have had on that portable hard drive like you just did).  Or 
> maybe you didn't have any other data on that portable hard drive (or maybe you didn't care about what was on it?).
> 
> By doing it the way you did, you wrote an identical copy of sdb1 onto your portable.  Which may be fine but you won't be 
> able to easily add more data to the portable drive either.
> 
>      good luck,
>           ~c
> 

	Yes the portable hard drive is ruined but not for long. I 
will take the 640 GB HD out and put it in this computer and 
get it right again for this computer. I am really tired of 
stupid windows! God it is slow and just bad. I like Linux a 
whole lot better!

73 Karl


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