ok... thank you Steve, well in...

that particular train of thought leads me to another question...
has you r a'yone an iso.expander for plan9... (ps: i do have anudder way)
...()

ps: am still on the lookout for  a dd arg...
laterz... /c /d 773
000000000000000000000000000000000000
pps: overall: looking at a 10/15 minute vm plan9 static os creation...
         with 99.99% automation

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 6:58 PM Conor Williams <conor.williams@gmail.com>
wrote:

> hello 9fannors...
>
> i wish to find the device? which the p9 iso file is mounted from...
> (a vm boot (i dont think that matters though...)
> e.g c drive is /dev/sdC0
>
> /c /ba 7723
> ps: i wish to do a quick back of the (, possibly ramfs, ) temporary / file
> system kind of like a backup of the c drive
> % dd /dev/XXYXX /dev/sdC0/9fat
>
> pps: would anyone know what might happen if the /dev/XXYXX partition is
> smaller that the C drive... (the /dev/sdC0/9fat is formatted and large and
> ready to go) -- i do realise i can find this out if I know the device...
>
>

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