[mdlug] is it possible to dd a remote & live drive?

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Clinton Weiss

> It is already mounted and in use.  Will this be a problem for dd?

 Can you temporarily mount the partition read-only? The command to do
this would be:

  mount -o remount,ro /dev/sda1

 (Assuming /dev/sda1 is the partition you want to remount.) Then do the
same command with "rw" instead of "ro" to remount it read-write.

 Obviously, if programs are writing to that partition, this would be a
problem for them. You may need to stop services temporarily while you're
doing this...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                    (313) 227-2317

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