[Nottingham] Another quick question...

[Jason Atkin]

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0

Excellent thanks. And an occasion where I won't break something if I get if 
and of the wrong way round :-) Always good.

While you're all on a roll... (Tell me to stop BEFORE you get sick of the 
questions please, rather than once I've already annoyed you.)
To back up my master boot record can I use something like:
dd if=/dev/hda of=./bootsector bs=512 count=1

If so what's the bs actually got to be? 512, 520? And have I messed up 
anything else in the line that'll make a total mess of things (before I try 
it)?

dd is your friend, until you get if and of the wrong way round. OOPS.


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