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Partition raw image
Name: soothsayer Date: November 23, 2005 at 17:38:59 Pacific OS: Mandrake 10 CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Does anyone know how to create a raw image of a partition (like a thumb drive), which is a .dd file ?
Name: Jake2 Date: November 23, 2005 at 23:22:28 Pacific
Reply:
I think the tool you're looking for is "dd".
On UNIX systems devices like your thumb drive are represented as device files that reside in the /dev directory. Drives are named "hd" for ATA drives and "sd" for SCSI, USB, and SATA drives, followed by a unique letter, and the partition number if you only want to access one parition.
Assuming you don't have any SCSI or SATA drives, your thumb drive would be "sda", so the command to make an image of the first partition would be "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=image_file" ("if" means input file, "of" means output file). I didn't use the .dd extension because extensions don't matter in UNIX and there's no general consensus regarding the extension for raw image files.
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