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How to grab an image of a HDD in Linux?	by romandas	2004-12-30 15:05:46
dd should do the job nicely...	by Bellator	2004-12-30 15:08:29
That's what I was thinking..	by romandas	2004-12-30 15:11:35
invoke man dd :)	by Tars_Tarkas	2004-12-30 15:16:27
compressed...	by tangentblade	2004-12-30 15:50:16
`dd if=/dev/hda \| bzip2 - > hd.img.bz2` `of` defaults to STDOUT, the dash parameter to `bzip2` says read from STDIN and it will automatically write to STDOUT, and > redirects STDOUT to the file named. Slower, but it'll store it compressed. Not really useful if you have space to spare. Also, you can loopback mount that .img file (not compressed) and use it as a live file system. Cool, no?
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Yea, better in fact, since you avoid	by Tars_Tarkas	2004-12-30 16:05:13
Of course, if you leave out the whole "\| bzip2 -	by bwkaz	2004-12-30 16:18:58
Which is always fun.	by LionsPhil	2004-12-30 16:27:19
I accidently did somethig like that once...	by Tars_Tarkas	2004-12-30 16:36:07

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