interesting<br><br>I'm not too familiar with hpfs filesystems, but you should<br>be able to do that..<br><br>Why do you have to split it 2GB chunks?<br><br>can't you just dd the whole thing?<br><br>you should however be able to mount hpfs with a live cd,<br>however you may need to modprobe it, as it may not<br>be compiled it.<br><br>you can check what filesystem you system supports with<br><br>cat /proc/filesystems<br><br>you should have hpfs there.<br><br> cat /proc/filesystems | grep hfs<br><br><br> cat /proc/filesystems | grep hpfs<br><br>modprobe hpfs<br>modprobe hfs (maybe)<br><br>if you get my drift.<br><br>you should then be able to mount it, and tar the actually files<br>of onto the network! easy!<br><br>this may give you some clues, don't get confuse with blocks(512/1024 etc etc) and byte...<br><br>dd is a block orientated tool!<br><br>http://www.cpqlinux.com/dd-resize.html<br><br><br><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;"> Ok, I still haven't got quite to the bottom of this dd thing, and now I <br>have a new problem. I installed OSX to a friend's laptop, when we tried <br>getting audio to work and rebooted, the thing froze on the apple logo. <br>We reinstalled and I said I'd make a backup to her external storage, <br>forgetting that it would be FAT32 and her partition size is 10GB.<br>Basically, I've looked into using search and count to create 2GB chunks <br>which then (hopefully) I could put back together if her system goes bust <br>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 FAT32 <br>would make later volumes, that would start at 4GB for example. I
just <br>thought I should check before I make a mistake. My main concern is that <br>I overwrite the first part of the next partition when I dd it back when <br>the inevitable happens and appleazalia messes up again. I also don't <br>know how easy it would be to tar everything up as I haven't yet found a <br>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></blockquote><br><p> 
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