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Re: Which Linux distributions do you use?

Pardon the brief thread hijack, but I guess there are probably some Linux gurus here. Quick question if I may?

can dd write an output file to a ntfs file system?

for example, I want to save an image of the MBR on sda to a file in a folder in sdb1, where the file system in the sdb1 partition is ntfs:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/MBR.img bs=512 count=1

Will this work, and not corrupt the filesystem in the sdb1 partition?