Duplicate Compact Flash

[Fragman]

Hello,
I try to duplicate Compact Flash. I seek a method or application which can copy each sector a Disk on another disk. With two card readers in USB I would like to be able to perform copy of "/ dev / sda" to "/ dev / sdb" respecting partition table (ie: sda1 and sda2) and the system boot (grub). Thank you in advance for your help.

[Hardwareman]

Hi
I think you can do this to perform your task

rfa-cp / media / sda / * / media / sdb

To copy the partition table, etc. is another thing, I do not know. Try a program like gparted. I think it will work by selecting the entire disk. (copy and paste function). Hope this will help you.

[Fabian]

Hey
If you need you can use the following command in your terminal as a root user

dd

This might be an appropriate command. It copies the entire disk.
If not, you can use partition tables partimage. Need more help, then do post back.

[Fragman]

Hi
Thank you all for your quick responses.

rfa-cp / media / sda / * / media / sdb
To copy the partition table, etc. is another thing, I do not know. Try a program like gparted. I think it will work by selecting the entire disk. (copy and paste function)

I installed gparted (gnome) on my Fedora Core 6, but the options "Copy" And "Stick" Remain gray (inactive). I also tried with kparted (kde): unsuccessfully.

if not, partition tables partimage

I'll try to find and install this application.

[Maxforu]

Hello,
If you need a complete copy and safe to use is "dd" and especially between different media (otherwise it should not complain afterward)

dd if = / dev / foo of = / dev / foo

and optional:
bs = leblocksize count = sometext
dd of course also works to create image files or to back down.
Typically like this

dd if = / dev / sda of = testimage.iso bs = 512 count = 1

Hope this will help you and you solve your problem soon.

[Fragman]

Hey

If you need a complete copy and safe to use is "dd"
and especially between different media (otherwise it should not complain afterward)

Just bought the second card reader and use "dd", this suits me for the duplication of Compact Flash (same size)! I will try to further explore how to use the ISO images. Thanks for your help guys.