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| Author | Content |
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| penguinist May 17, 2016 7:11 PM EDT |
This article describes a long procedure to accomplish what can be done with a usb live disk and three commands:mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup_sda.img bs=1M umount /mnt |
| dotmatrix May 17, 2016 7:34 PM EDT |
True. But then you'd need to get a 'live-cd-zilla' version of a GNU/Linux distro... zcat or dd or whatever the image onto a USB stick... then boot into the live image, open a terminal, and issue the aforementioned commands. It's probably convenient for some people to have a single purpose bootable USB thingie to do dastardly doings on drives... kind of like DBAN, I suppose. |
| flufferbeer May 18, 2016 2:47 AM EDT |
@penguinist > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup_sda.img bs=1M > umount /mnt Or maybe even "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup_sda.img bs=1M ; umount /mnt " Either one of these sure seems to me to nicely adhere to the principle of K.I.S.S.! 2c |
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