piping output of dd through bzip2

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Sun Jan 13 17:31:10 EST 2002


Hi all,

I'm trying to image a partition with dd, and pass the output to bzip2. However, bzip2 tells me that input file file.img cannot be found. Can someone tell me the correct cyntax please?
I'm doing the following: "dd if=/dev/hda1 |bzip2 -9 file.img"
Thanks in advance for any help.
Greg





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