Dear All...

Cloning an entire hard disk:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb conv=notrunc,noerror
i tryed like this ...but it is taking too much time ......

what should i do ....if i abort is it will corrupt my good sda....

pls advice

Gireesh




On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jos Collin <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:45:44AM +0530, gireesh thenayil rajappan nair
> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Pls tell me how can i clone my bootable Flash drive(sda1) to other flash
> > drive of same size (example sdb1)
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]# df
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> >                        2761448   1897948    720960  73% /
> > /dev/sda1                97570     10962     81570  12% /boot
> > tmpfs                   253584         0    253584   0% /dev/shm
> >
> > after mounting my sdb1 , shall i use this ...> dd if=/dev/sda1
> of=/dev/sdb1
> > to create a  bootable sdb1 ..
> >
> > I worried about the installations which is in my sda1 ...that's why inst
> ed
> > of trying I am requesting your valuable advice ..
> >
>
> You don't have to mount sdb1. Just make sda1 and sdb1 available and do the
> command that you
> have given. After execution, sdb1 will be exactly the same as sda1.
>
> Happy Hacking,
> Jos Collin
>
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