Hi.

I'm trying to follow this guide "MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide" in MorphOS Library but I got stuck at chapter "Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits" point 8-9. I'm wiggeling the mouse and click "Create" but Kryptos immediately comes back saying that it can't create an image. A file was actually created but it's empty.
How can I troubleshoot what exactly goes wrong?
Or is there another tool that can create disk images? I don't need the encryption feature.


Manfred

What about copying from RAWDISK:?

I wasn't aware of RAWDISK:.
Could work to use it for copy from/to.
But I don't want to partition my USB stick and so I'd like to create images of my partitions.


Manfred

Well, RAMDISK: creates images out of partitions. Take a look:
Code:

Can I really compress it there in this location?
Anyway, I tried copying the partition image to the USB stick like this:
[code]
copy DIRECT RAWDISK:Devices/ide.device/0/MAC/partition01 TO Untitled:sys_bak
[code]
But the copy is always cancelled after a while and the resulting copy is incomplete.


Manfred

[ Edited by asrael22 25.01.2016 - 13:32 ]

This works for me
Code:

Hmm, yeah. Copying to NIL: works.
Copying to anywhere real doesn't work.
At 3.8 Gig it stops. If there a size limit?


Manfred

I copied the disk image 78 GB.
All partitions together (one fileimage)
Target disk(usb) was exFAT

[ Edited by Norbi 25.01.2016 - 23:00 ]

Alright.
Even if this is working I'm not copying the whole partition image if it's only filled 5%. Hmm, can this be piped over xz while copying?

Anyhow, if there another tool than can create empty images that I can mount and copy over the stuff?


Manfred

Its easy :)

1. FileWrite RAM:image 100000 ; create file image 100000 byte
2. FileImageCTRL ; put image file to unit 0
3, Mouter ; choice fileimage.device unit 0, select filesystem and button MOUNT
4. Format fileimage0


This is one method for making an image disk

Thanks.

Hmm, FileWrite doesn't take a size argument > INT_MAX which is somewhere at 2.1Gig.
So I've created my own tool that can create large files.
It's basically just creating an empty file.
The rest works as you describe.


Manfred

Instead of creating the file, you can use any existing n.e. image dvd, avi file or other large file.