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Can I dd a RAR'ed disk image without extracting it?


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Hi people!

I have just about no space left on C: drive because I resized it to make a partition for OSX.

I need a way to dd my RAR'ed disk image onto the OSX partition without extracting it from the archive it's in, or by somehow piping the extracted output (without writing anything to C:) to dd. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to do that in Windows because Windows has no concept of pipes, it doesn't want you using the CLI, and/or I can't find a program to do this.

 

Any suggestions?

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To pipe the output through dd you'd most likely have to have enough memory to handle the size of the file, and even then you would have to re-rar the output and put it into a new file... Looks like you're slightly out of luck man. Free up some space and burn some of that porn to dvd's and store em in a nice cool place so they dont deteriorate.

 

-sdelano

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