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My hd contains tracks of 63 sectors, and each sector is 512 bytes. The first sector is of course the boot sector. The following 62 are unused, as my first ...
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- 09-06-2004 #1Just Joined!
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Advanced use of dd
My hd contains tracks of 63 sectors, and each sector is 512 bytes. The first sector is of course the boot sector. The following 62 are unused, as my first partition starts on the second track. I assume this is because partitions can only contain whole tracks. The 62 unused sectors makes up 30 Kb, and I can't let that go to waste! So I would like someone to confirm that this is the right way to read and write a <=30 Kb file to them:
Code:To write: dd if=file of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=63 seek=2 To read: dd in=/dev/hda of=file bs=512 count=63 skip=1
- 09-06-2004 #2Linux Guru
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holy crap thats a small hard drive! lol Looks good to me, but don't quote me on it.
-lakerdonald
- 09-11-2004 #3Just Joined!
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The above was wrong, this is how it's done.
dd bs=512 count=62 if=/dev/hda of=file skip=1 (read)
dd bs=512 count=62 if=file of=/dev/hda seek=1 (write)
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