Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Hi Ian,

If I do a

    eix partclone

I get

    No matches found.
    [1]    7241 exit 1     eix -n partclone
    
. May be a typo... ;)





Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@×××××.com> [16-03-29 18:30]:
> Checkout partclone, I think it does what you're looking for.
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 12:19 <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ia,
> >
> > thanks for your reply ! :)
> >
> > The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size.
> > That means, I will backup mostly zeroes.
> >
> > Where are the partioning/format defining on the device?
> > If there are only stored the beginning of the device: How
> > much do I need to copy?
> >
> > or:
> >
> > If there are tools to extract all needed informations of the
> > partioning/formatting and to recreate exactly that kind of
> > partitioning/formatting later with that or other tools:
> > Which tools do I need and how to use them?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > Best regards,
> > Meino
> >
> >
> >
> > Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@×××××.com> [16-03-29 18:12]:
> > > If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be
> > > sure you get everything you can just
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick
> > >
> > > Replacing old/newstick with the correct device.
> > >
> > > You can even keep a backup image with
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img
> > >
> > > Which you then can replicate to any drive
> > >
> > > dd if=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img of=/dev/newdevice
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 11:43 <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > since companies know their usbstick internals  best, they
> > > > format their drives in a way, that the performance is best.
> > > >
> > > > That's why I want to make a complete image "backup" of my
> > > > new usbstick first before using it in case of needing to
> > > > reset the whole thing.
> > > >
> > > > The stick is a 64GB vfat formatted device.
> > > >
> > > > How much of the usbstick do I need to dd/pv from
> > > > the stick to preserve *all* informations to do a
> > > > "true factory reset" later if needed?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Meino
> > > >
> > > >
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> >