Re: [MiNT] Need help to resurrect a Falcon + CT60

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

If you inadvertently put a space after /dev/sda7 that is the only way
your sda7 should be corrupted.  As Mikro said - there be dragons!
Proceed with massive caution!

Thanks,
Mark


On 07/20/2015 08:36 AM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI
> <jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr <mailto:jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     I typed sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/sda7/Atari/ conv=swab, but only
>     got a message telling no such file or directory.
> 
> 
> You got it nearly right -- you should have typed something like "sudo dd
> if=/dev/sde of=$HOME/atari.img conv=swab", i.e. write it to a file.
> /dev/sda7/Atari doesn't make sense -- sda7 is a partition, you can
> create directories on a filesystem only.
> 
> Always know what are you doing with tools like dd else you may end up
> with huge data losses!
> 
> 
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