Hi Chad,
> I know he data on the disk is only around 80M, but dd copies the
> whole CD (600M+). Someone mentioned a file called isofilesize or
> similar that determines the size of the iso filesystem so that dd
> will only copy the iso image and not the disk padding. Does anyone
> know where this file is located or how to get the used portion of the
> CD without the padding.
I usually mount the CD and estimate its file size with df, then unmount and
dd it. Something like:
mount /mnt/cdrom
df | grep /mnt/cdrom
umount /mnt/cdrom
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=Image.img bs=1k count=<size from df>
You could use a block size of 2k (CD block size is 2k) and divide the count
by 2, but I am not sure if this really improves performance. Wouldn't hurt
though.
Bye,
Leonard.
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