Re: Help with a little dd damage!

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Brian Chadwick wrote:
Morgan Read wrote:

[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# dd if=/dev/sda of=2ndstage.rescue bs=1K count=1280
1280+0 records in
1280+0 records out
1310720 bytes (1.3 MB) copied, 0.0535238 s, 24.5 MB/s
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# chown morgan: ./2ndstage.rescue
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]# dd if=zImage-LAB-20060421.htc of=/dev/sda
2348+0 records in
2348+0 records out
1202176 bytes (1.2 MB) copied, 0.117155 s, 10.3 MB/s
[root@morgansmachine DiskBUImagesEtc]#


So, fingers firmly crossed, have I managed to copy enough of my hard drive with the first two commands to be able to patch back the catastrophic damage I seem to have done with the last command. Could someone more confident than I give me some instruction:)

sorry ... dd is final ... it did what you said as a root user. dont you love linux ... it does EXACTLY what you say when you are root.


The point was Morgan has an accidental sort-of backup of the bit
he dd-ed over.

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imalone


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