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 Reply-To: "ML CygWIN" From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" To: Subject: RE: Really big files? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:34:46 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3FDF76D4.D5E889A0@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes > From: Brian Dessent > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:19 PM > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > === 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 Minimal info addition: Symantec's ghost.exe is a AFAIK DOS application, with all the implications - don't know more about it (does it handle NTFS?). PowerQuest's "ghost" (i.e. Drive Image) does some 'magic' by booting a temporary disk image - for creating the backup (this disk image can be rebuilt using the installed software. Does understand NTFS and at least 'knows about' Linux). /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/