Re: Accidental deletion. Help please!

Vilmos Soti (vilmos@xxxxxxx) writes:
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et472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Black) writes:

Vilmos Soti (vilmos@xxxxxxx) writes:
Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Well, I would first make sure that the partition was
unmounted. Then I would mount it read only, and use
dd to make an exact copy of it to another partition,
and only work on that exact copy.

And why should he remount ro in order to dd?

Vilmos

To prevent anything being added to the partition while it's mounted?

And why anybody needs to *mount* the partition before dd-ing it?
Whether ro or rw? You don't dd the mountpoint. You dd the device.

Sorry. Since you did put in the "ro" I was focusing on that. Your
point is valid, and it's the mount that is the issue, not how
it's mounted.

Michael
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