DD will copy everything. i.e. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
will copy mbr partition data and all files to sdb. Of cours sdb needs to be equal or greater than /dev/sda Thanks Gary On 07/14/10 at 09:43am, Martin Nix wrote: > In the format you are using below it will do a raw copy of data - any > partitions or formatting previously defined on sdc will have been overwritten > by whatever was in stick.img (I'm assuming this was a raw image in the first > place) > > Martin > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
