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[ILUG] how to create an image of a partition?

[ILUG] how to create an image of a partition?

Frank Peelo f26p at eircom.net
Fri May 25 10:44:39 IST 2007


Proinnsias Breathnach wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:23:10AM +0100, Frank Peelo wrote:
>> ps it wouldn't take you long to knock up a program for filling up the 
>> space, but to save you the hassle, here's a program I did a while ago 
>> for some project. gcc writebytes.c -o writebytes will compile it.
>>
> 
> Or
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file bs=1M count=2048
> 
> or similar ?

d'oh




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