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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      @scottalanmiller Is there an newb's guide to dd?

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      • coliverC
        coliver
        last edited by

        Yep,

        man dd
        
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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M
          

          Where sda is the source, and sbd is the target.

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          • coliverC
            coliver @coliver
            last edited by coliver

            @coliver said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

            Yep,

            man dd
            

            Really you would do something like:

            dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb. 
            

            There is a way to do it with a progress bar I just don't remember it off the top of my head. Nor is it very useful other then to see some indication.

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            • coliverC
              coliver
              last edited by

              Just make sure you are absolutely sure which drive is which. dd is similar to a honey badger when it comes to your data.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                And you know how a honey badger is with data.

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                • stacksofplatesS
                  stacksofplates @coliver
                  last edited by

                  @coliver said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                  @coliver said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                  Yep,

                  man dd
                  

                  Really you would do something like:

                  dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb. 
                  

                  There is a way to do it with a progress bar I just don't remember it off the top of my head. Nor is it very useful other then to see some indication.

                  Ya to get the progress you have to pipe into pv. It's a weird syntax.

                  dd if=/dev/sda | pv | dd of=/dev/sdb
                  
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                  • coliverC
                    coliver @stacksofplates
                    last edited by

                    @johnhooks said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                    @coliver said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                    @coliver said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                    Yep,

                    man dd
                    

                    Really you would do something like:

                    dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb. 
                    

                    There is a way to do it with a progress bar I just don't remember it off the top of my head. Nor is it very useful other then to see some indication.

                    Ya to get the progress you have to pipe into pv. It's a weird syntax.

                    dd if=/dev/sda | pv | dd of=/dev/sdb
                    

                    Thanks, I knew it wasn't difficult just not something I do everyday.

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                      And you know how a honey badger is with data.

                      Not the one I was looking for but it is much more polite.

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                      • stacksofplatesS
                        stacksofplates
                        last edited by

                        Looks like you can do this also

                        dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb &
                        

                        then

                        pv /path/to/file.iso | md5sum
                        

                        and it prints out the progress

                        20MiB 0:00:00 [ 268MiB/s] [=====================================================================================================================================================================>] 100%            
                        8f4e33f3dc3e414ff94e5fb6905cba8c  -
                        
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                        • travisdh1T
                          travisdh1
                          last edited by

                          Clonezilla is just dd for those to lazy to figure out the exact command(s) needed to run. Also, I use it all the time.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by

                            Does DD gracefully handle larger to smaller disks?

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                            • brianlittlejohnB
                              brianlittlejohn @DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              @DustinB3403 From what I've read (haven't tried) you have to resize the partitions on the source then clone each partition over individually.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403
                                last edited by

                                That blows.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Linux help me clone dynamic windows disk to clean SSD:

                                  Does DD gracefully handle larger to smaller disks?

                                  No, it's JUST the block copy mechanism.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    I might just buy a 960GB SSD.... it's under $200... and return this unit.

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