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]
