Re: [PEN-TEST] Raw Disk Mounter

[Brian Russo <brusso () PHYS HAWAII EDU>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:33:53PM +1100, Clem Colman wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Do you know of any file systems or products that just allow you to mount
> partitions and just read the tracks as raw data, dump it to a file etc on
> another file etc.

I think dd(1) can do what you want.

say.. you want to look at /dev/hda2

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/some/file

where /some/file will be the contents, you can dd different options to suit
your needs, consult the docs.

it's a pretty standard tool, most unix-like os' should have it, if not you can
get it as part of GNU fileutils, at any gnu mirror.

 - brian

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