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Re: [Qemu-devel] remark about http://www.freeoszoo.org
From: |
Lennert Buytenhek |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] remark about http://www.freeoszoo.org |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:29:07 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:50:31AM -0400, Karl Magdsick wrote:
> Free OS Zoo suggests using dd with the seek= option in the _specific_
> case of Linux, which appears to be safe. My comment was explicitly a
> note of caution in the _general_ case.
Yep. As well as:
"[...] the image will likely contain parts of deleted files from
the host OS."
Just curious, do you have an example of any such system where this
would be the case? I don't know of any system that doesn't support
sparse files and doesn't pad out the file with zeroes if you
truncate(2) it to be bigger.
cheers,
Lennert