can't work out if you insane, or just stupid...pick one ;-)<br><br><br><b><i>Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:55:52 +0000 (GMT), Lee Hughes wrote:<br><br>> 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<br>> it from there!<br>> <br><br>Works fine on a mounted fs.<br><br># dd if=/dev/sda1 of=boot.img<br>48132+0 records in<br>48132+0 records out<br>24643584 bytes (25 MB) copied, 0.580475 s, 42.5 MB/s<br># file boot.img<br>boot.img: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)<br># mount -o loop boot.img /mnt/disk<br># ls -l /mnt/disk/<br>total 14343<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79593 2008-01-21 19:30 config-2.6.23.14-115.fc8<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79661 2008-02-10 22:57
config-2.6.23.15-137.fc8<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2008-02-16 14:00 grub<br>-rw------- 1 root root 3030991 2008-02-07 20:08 initrd-2.6.23.14-115.fc8.img<br>-rw------- 1 root root 1916928 2008-02-12 18:34 initrd-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.img<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew andrew 543 2003-11-22 12:42 kernel.h<br>drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 12288 2003-11-21 22:37 lost+found<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 851712 2008-01-21 19:30 System.map-2.6.23.14-115.fc8<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 852777 2008-02-10 22:57 System.map-2.6.23.15-137.fc8<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1979776 2008-01-21 19:30 vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-115.fc8<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1982944 2008-02-10 22:57 vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-137.fc8<br>-rw-r----- 1 root root 1913880 2008-02-11 19:50 vmlinuz-2.6.24.2<br>-rw-r----- 1 root root 1906012 2008-02-16 13:59 vmlinuz-2.6.25-rc2<br><br>From dmesg<br><br>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds<br>EXT3 FS on loop0, internal journal<br>EXT3-fs:
recovery complete.<br>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.<br><br><br>Andrew<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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