Re: [Libguestfs] Read MBR and store in a file?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:34:34AM -0500, Jason A. Kates wrote:
what about just using dd?
dd if=disk.img of=mbr bs=512b count=1
Correct, that's what I alluded to here:
> This will work for any format of disk. Of course for a raw
format
> disk this is just a slower way of reading the first 512 bytes from the
> raw file.
'dd' is only going to work for a raw format file. It won't work
for any other disk image format.
'qemu-io' will work for all disk image formats supported by qemu
(same as libguestfs).
Rich.
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