[clue] [TECH] Making disk images Is Clonezilla live a good choice ?

[Dennis J Perkins]

I think it will also copy empty sectors.

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 13:20 -0400, CP Constantine wrote:

> On 6/12/2011 4:03 AM, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> > Great !  Will dd have any problems with NTFS ?  I am backing up some WIN
> > XP drives .... urk
> > 99guspuppet
> 
> DD is utterly filesystem-agnostic.. it only understands block devices,
> and makes a bit-by-bit copy of them
> 
> hence: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=thatdisc.iso
> 
> will produce a perfect ISO filesystem image, because that's what is
> exposed by /dev/cdrom
> 
> likewise for any other block device (partition or otherwise). so
> creating a copy of an NTFS partition (or any fs)
> 
> # dd if=/dev/sdb3 of=partition.img
> # mount -o loop,ro -t ntfs partition.img /mnt/tmp
> 
> would copy that ntfs partition, and then mount that filestem image
> localy, read-only, under /mnt/tmp  (useful for forensics).
> 
> also worth looking into, is dd_rescue, which will copy (to the best of
> its ability) raw partitions on a damaged drive.
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