ghost for linux

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:22 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> Thanks to the help from this list, I now have FC5 running on my HP zv6000
> AMD64 laptop. Next trick is to make a backup so I don't mess things up.
> Based on suggestions from the list, I'm trying out g4l. I'm making an
> image on a USB hard drive. This seems to work, but I suspect the image is
> larger than it needs to be because I didn't clear out the unused space on
> the laptop drive. g4l comes with a simple script to write nulls to the
> drive, then delete the created file. The script is:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M
> rm /0bits
> 
> 
> When I run it as root, I get the following errors:
> 
> ./CleanDrive.sh
> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such file or
> directory
> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Ideas?

When you say "I run it as root", did you "su" or "su -"?  You MUST use
"su -", as "dd" is in /bin and that's not part of a regular user's PATH.

"su" only changes your UID/GID to root.  "su -" also gives you root's
environment (including root's PATH).  Alternately, you could change the
script to "/bin/dd if=...." (in other words, specify the full path to
dd).

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