Knoppix file size limit?

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Wed Jan 26 02:41:14 PST 2005


Perhaps .dd


On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:55, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 
> > This may well be a dumb question, since no one yet has asked. If so, please 
> > enlighten me. But, why are you saving your disk image as an iso file  
> > (of=/mnt/public/hddimage.iso)? It's not obvious to me that the image being 
> > read (if=/dev/hda) is an iso image and calling it one, won't make it one.
> 
> I doubt that's a dumb question.
> 
> Mostly I want to save an image that can be dumped back to a hdd by the 
> reverse process. And I tend to think in terms of iso files for disk 
> images. But you're right about the fact that internally it won't be an 
> iso image. (Wonder what the currect naming scheme would be?)
> 
> Michael
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