Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FDF76D4.D5E889A0@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:19:16 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Really big files? References: <1071535713.1524.20.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Greg Freemyer wrote: > I just tried to dd the first 163 GB of a raw drive to a image file. > > It failed at about 145 GB. Should it work? > > I had plenty of free space. > > I'm using cygwin.dll ver. 1.5.5 and a recent dd (I think, see cygcheck -s output). > > === Session Log > $ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/todds Just a completely random guess here: Is 'physicaldrive2' an active system drive? IIRC there are some parts of windows that cannot be read by anything but the kernel itself, such as the SAM database (or something along those lines.) If this is the case then you'd have to do the image when the partition is not active. I don't know how or if tools like Ghost get around this. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/