From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Jul 30 10:51:19 2004 X-Authentication-Warning: laura.studionet: maurits owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:41:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Maurits van de Kamp X-X-Sender: maurits@laura.studionet To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] dd - access to block device In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: maurits@bassment.nu Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, I wrote: > So if I understand correctly, dd could be adapted the same way (although > this is a bit dangerous since the of/if-arguments can be files as well as > devices), or as a nicer solution we'd need a sort of blockdev.xdd for raw > access, which could then also be used for fsck and friends. ..like flop_raw.xdd which I just noticed on my bootdrive as I was wondering why I had /dev/fd0 and /dev/fh0 in my system. :o) Maurits.