you could try gzipping it, depending on what the parition contains, you may be able to get the whole thing to fit<br>in 4gb!<br><br><pre> dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > /mnt/hdb1/system_drive_backup.img.gz<br><br>I think bzip will give better compression , but it's slower<br><br>worth giving it a try!<br><br><br>this may also help<br><br>dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -c | split -b 2000m - /mnt/hdc1/backup.img.gz.<br><br><br>read this page it's good<br><br>http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd<br></pre><br><br><b><i>Nistur <nistur@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi, what I meant was that the backup file I was making was being stored <br>on a FAT32 USB HDD, however the MacOSX partition itself is 10GB so just <br>using dd on it's own will complain about lack of disk space when the <br>backup hits 4GB, losing 6GB of the image.<br><br>Paul Lancaster wrote:<br>> Nistur
wrote:<br>>> Ok, I still haven't got quite to the bottom of this dd thing, and now <br>>> I have a new problem. I installed OSX to a friend's laptop, when we <br>>> tried getting audio to work and rebooted, the thing froze on the <br>>> apple logo. We reinstalled and I said I'd make a backup to her <br>>> external storage, forgetting that it would be FAT32 and her partition <br>>> size is 10GB.<br>>> Basically, I've looked into using search and count to create 2GB <br>>> chunks which then (hopefully) I could put back together if her system <br>>> goes bust again.<br>>> I got confused though. I managed to get the first one with:<br>>> dd count=4194304 if=/dev/sda3 of=/mnt/usb/OSXBackup.1<br>>> When I tried:<br>>> dd search=4194305 count=4194304 if=/dev/sda3 of=/mnt/usb/OSXBackup.2<br>>> it started off the filesize as 2GB. I didn't check to see whether <br>>> FAT32 would make later
volumes, that would start at 4GB for example. <br>>> I just thought I should check before I make a mistake. My main <br>>> concern is that I overwrite the first part of the next partition when <br>>> I dd it back when the inevitable happens and appleazalia messes up <br>>> again. I also don't know how easy it would be to tar everything up as <br>>> I haven't yet found a liveCD that can access a hfs partition :(<br>>><br>>> Thanks in advance and I'll continue googling<br>>> Nistur<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>>> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>> Fat 32 will have no problems with a 10GB partition but will truncate <br>> file sizes at 4.0GB - hence
the problems with DVD iso's.<br>><br>> Paul<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br>><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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