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If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be |
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sure you get everything you can just |
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dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick |
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Replacing old/newstick with the correct device. |
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You can even keep a backup image with |
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dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img |
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Which you then can replicate to any drive |
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dd if=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img of=/dev/newdevice |
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 11:43 <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> since companies know their usbstick internals best, they |
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> format their drives in a way, that the performance is best. |
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> That's why I want to make a complete image "backup" of my |
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> new usbstick first before using it in case of needing to |
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> reset the whole thing. |
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> The stick is a 64GB vfat formatted device. |
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> How much of the usbstick do I need to dd/pv from |
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> the stick to preserve *all* informations to do a |
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> "true factory reset" later if needed? |
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> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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