I beleive that dd is the equivalent of what was norton partition magic (without all the complicated GUI lol) in that it copies disks at a low level, unless you are creating an iso or .img file image which will create a file on an existing partition, but replicating the image of the disk being cloned. otherwise, my understanding is, your basically re-imaging a disk, so...yes I think your expectation below is correct.
http://ss64.com/bash/dd.html Cheers Rich On 14 July 2010 09:37, Phil Thompson <p...@yarwell.demon.co.uk> wrote: > A question arising from my Hackintosh efforts..... > > If using dd to copy an image to a device - say an img file to a USB stick - > does the transfer occur at the lowest level or is the image written to the > partition / format structure that exists. > > My expectation was that if I dd an img file to /dev/sdc (a USB stick) that > it would end up with the partitioning, MBR and file structure as defined in > the img file ? > > If that is the case, why do I see tutorials that go on at length about > formatting sticks and using the right file system / partition table type, > only to then splat an image on them with dd ? > > For clarity I'm taling about a simple dd command like > > dd if=stick.img of=/dev/sdc > > without any qualifying parameters > > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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