From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: RE: [9fans] scuzz doesn't like CD-RW? From: Charles Forsyth Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:09:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c79dca78-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > do you mean i can tar cf foo > /dev/sdD0/raw ?? > would be great! i thought the suggestion was to buffer the tar image in a free partition on a normal drive, then copy (eg, with dd) from there (but you'd need to get the count right).