On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:45 AM, gireesh thenayil rajappan nair < [email protected]> wrote:
> after mounting my sdb1 , shall i use this ...> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > to create a bootable sdb1 .. > This is useful for copying partitions. But if you want to clone entire disk including MBR then you have to do $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (note the absence of numbers) -- அகிலன் (Akilan R) [ blog.akilan.in ] *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
