I'm not sure what you guys are arguing about, but I've imaged partitions mounted in read only mode. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Robert McWilliam <<a href="mailto:rmcw@allmail.net">rmcw@allmail.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:29:10 +0000 (GMT), "Lee Hughes"<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><<a href="mailto:toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk">toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk</a>> said:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> think next time? is this a wind up?<br>
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</div>I was wondering the same about your responses.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> ask a few professional unix admins, and get back to me with the results?<br>
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</div>I don't care how many professional admins tell me I can't image a<br>
mounted partition that isn't going to make it true. Being mounted isn't<br>
the thing that can make the image screwed up it is the fs changing while<br>
you are imaging it, unmounting isn't the only way to stop a fs changing.<br>
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> it's your data, do what you want with it ;-).<br>
><br>
> just do advise people to do that, because<br>
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</div>Has a "not" gone missing or is looking like silly head (twice)<br>
desirable?<br>
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