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Directory path for dd
Authored by: cfh on Mar 27, '07 02:21:14AM

I'm trying to recover from one external drive to a second, both connected to a Mac. I'm getting a directory error message on the output file drive. Several of the drive paths I've tried are listed below.

dd bs=4k if=/dev/rdisk2s2 of=/dev/rdisk1s3/buimage.dmg conv=noerror,sync

dd bs=4k if=/dev/rdisk2s2 of=/dev/disk1s3/buimage.dmg conv=noerror,sync

dd bs=4k if=/dev/rdisk2s2 of=/dev/disk1s3/recover/buimage.dmg conv=noerror,sync

All list the of drive with the Not a directory message, e.g.
dd: /dev/disk1s3/recover/buimage.dmg: Not a directory

The drive names are correct (listed with df -k):
/dev/disk1s3 312440112 96204 312343908 0%
/dev/disk2s2 160823792 120768544 40055248 75%

The buimage.dmg file does not yet exist. I did create a directory called recover. The of drive contains only that directory (empty) and some backup software that came installed on it.

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.



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Directory path for dd
Authored by: pjx on Dec 01, '09 06:55:24PM

Did you ever get this to work. I am in the same boat you were and cant get past it.



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