Dear all...

Its is working fine ...thank you .


Regards,

Gireesh

On 5/13/11, gireesh thenayil rajappan nair <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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