rknichols |
04-11-2012 10:28 AM |
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Originally Posted by JZL240I-U
(Post 4650111)
The standard output shows only printed characters and not the full range of hexadecimal values, ...
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Where on Earth did you get an idea like that? In the absence of an "of=" argument, dd writes exactly the same data to stdout as would have gone to the "of=" file. Yes, if that output goes to a terminal you will see garbage, but redirecting to a file should be fine.
@RagonichaFulva: Does that 47GB size of the image file match the size of the original sda5 partition? That "bad geometry" message suggests that the original file system was 285GB. Was the original filesystem type really ext4? What does the file command report as the type of the partitionimage.dd file, i.e., the output from
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file partitionimage.dd
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