Image a diskette?

[Francis Stevens]

Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi all,
>   How do I go about creating an image of a floppy diskette that I can 
> use to clone the diskette and use as storage for archival purposes?  All 
> I need is the command and then I'll read the relevant parts.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 

I use:-

	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./copyofafloppydisk

to create a file which is a copy of the floppy disk and

	dd if=./copyofafloppydisk of=/dev/fd0

to create the new floppy.

You don't need to mount the floppy to do this.

FAS