you cant image a filesystem while it's mounted.<br><br>either unmount it, or boot from a live disc, and do what you will to it<br>from there!<br><br><br><b><i>Scott McGurk <mcgurkorama@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi guys, Im about to start messing about with a hard drive and I want to image it to a file, so I can restore it incase I mess up?<br><br>Anybody any ideas how to go about this, Ive looked around, but no luck..<br><br>The drive i want to image is mounted as a second drive in a FC8 system. The drive has an install of redhat on it.<br> <br>Cheers! _______________________________________________<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</blockquote><br><p> 
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