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I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb |
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I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I can swap the drives and boot. |
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Do I boot from USB and run: |
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dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 |
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fdisk -l /dev/sda |
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Disk /dev/sda: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 sectors |
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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Disklabel type: dos |
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Disk identifier: 0x000f2548 |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 * 63 80324 40131 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda2 80325 16868249 8393962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
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/dev/sda3 16868250 121740569 52436160 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda4 121740570 1250258624 564259027+ 83 Linux |
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fdisk -l /dev/sdb |
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Disk /dev/sdb: 596.2 GiB, 640133946880 bytes, 1250261615 sectors |
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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Joseph |