[Live-demo] duplicating bootable flash drive

[edgar.soldin at web.de]

On 13.02.2012 21:32, Hamish wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>> You might be able to write a script that uses fdisk and dd
>> if you want to get fancy with it.
> 
> if you use dd on the entire device like
>  'dd if=/dev/sdf of=/dev/sdg'
> is there any need to use fdisk?
> 

yes a block by block copy on a large enough device should do the trick. of course you will loose an unpartitioned part on the end of bigger devices. it could be used after adding a partition there later on.

..ede