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Offline rminnich

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USB stick installed; clone it?
« on: October 11, 2009, 07:45:00 PM »
I'm getting ready to write the script to clone the USB stick I am booting, but am wondering if someone has already done it ... have not found anything like this in the forums however.

thanks

ron

Offline Juanito

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Re: USB stick installed; clone it?
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 05:38:04 AM »
You could do something like:
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$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
where:
/dev/sda is the source usb stick
/dev/sdb is the target usb stick

Both usb sticks would need to be unmounted at the time and preferably the same size...

Offline rminnich

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Re: USB stick installed; clone it?
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2009, 05:17:26 PM »
That's not a great way to do it ... I'll look at other possibilities. I may just hack up usbinstall.

Thanks

ron