El 13/09/2014 00:18, "Ivan Viso Altamirano" <ivanviso...@gmail.com> escribió:
> You are only cloning the first 512 bytes , remove the count parameter . It > is usefull if you need to copy/restore the mbr . > El 12/09/2014 23:53, "Joseph" <syscon...@gmail.com> escribió: > >> I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb >> I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I can >> swap the drives and boot. >> >> Do I boot from USB and run: >> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 >> >> fdisk -l /dev/sda >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> Disklabel type: dos >> Disk identifier: 0x000f2548 >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 * 63 80324 40131 83 Linux >> /dev/sda2 80325 16868249 8393962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris >> /dev/sda3 16868250 121740569 52436160 83 Linux >> /dev/sda4 121740570 1250258624 564259027+ 83 Linux >> >> fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> >> Disk /dev/sdb: 596.2 GiB, 640133946880 bytes, 1250261615 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> >> >> -- >> Joseph >> >>
