Hello listmates,

Normally whenever I needed to grab the contents of a disk/partition in its entirety I would just use dd to pipe it wherever I wanted and that would just work.

However, with a VZFS partition on a Parallels VM itdoes not seem to work:

root@nei [~]# dd if=/dev/vzfs of=/dev/null bs=1M count=50 dd: opening `/dev/vzfs': Permission denied root@nei [~]#

root@nei [~]# mount /dev/vzfs on / type reiserfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime) none on /backup/tmpdir type tmpfs (rw,size=800M) root@nei [~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 62390272 37075204 25315068 60% / none 393216 4 393212 1% /dev none 819200 0 819200 0% /backup/tmpdir root@nei [~]#

Any idea why this is and how to work around it?

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Boris.