dd'ing a cdrom

[Jeffrey Lim]

ahh, ok, thanks!!! it's "raw"....

-Jeff

On 4/30/06, Tony at servacorp.com <Tony at servacorp.com> wrote:
> Generally, dd tends to be used with raw devices.
> There is nothing to do to handle errors
> (except switch devices -- which is not really an answer)
>
> Handling errors requires putting the stuff somewhere else
> which requires knowing enough of the target filesystem
> so that the stuff will be recovered from the alternate
> location instead of attempted from the originally
> attempted location.
>
> dd is very good at moving filesystems from one place to
> another without any idea of what is in the filesystem.
>