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)

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