Re: Using dd.exe to make forensic images of NTFS drives

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 17:27:57 PDT

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    On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:00:49 PDT, Bill Schoolcraft said:
> >    # cd /dev; /dist/dev/MAKEDEV std
> 
> Hi Jim, I didn't get the reason for the "MAKEDEV std" on the
> above line.

It populates /dev with all the nice entries you'd like to have handy,
stuff like entries for your disk partitions, etc.  I'd list them but I don't
have a FreeBSD handy.

If you're REALLY curious, do this:

# cd /dev
# ls
# /dist/dev/MAKEDEV std
# ls

and see all the stuff that appeared. ;)

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