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 > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] >
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