Questions tagged [dd]
A common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data.
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In Linux (terminal only) can I temporarily force a Windows EFI to be unbootable then restore as needed?
I have a Windows Server. I do backups by booting to Linux and doing a dd exact sector copy from my boot disk to another disk*. The problem is that my Server's BIOS is too smart, no matter what I do ...
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Is it possible to move partitions around on Mac OS using dd and gdisk?
Please bare with me, if this question seems dumb. I'm not experienced with filesystems and partitions.
I have an IMG file from a 16GB sd card. My issue is: I have a 32GB sd card and do not want 16GB ...
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Is there a tool like `dd` but respect sparse-ness of input file?
I am creating disk images with multiple ext4 partitions on it. Each ext4 partition content is created with mkfs.ext4 and the resulting filesystem image files are "sparse".
When I use dd to ...
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Raspberry pi fails to boot from USB after cloning disk (HomeAssistant)
My SSD I was running HomeAssistant on was getting a bit to small so I got a larger disk.
I cloned my disk via:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sde bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
(where indeed ...
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Can I dd from one opened luks container to another?
I want to migrate my encrypted data from one drive to another. Both source and target should be encrypted. I've read in some other question, that I should create a new container, so that the superkey ...
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Why does DD'ing a raw image change the image when read back
I have a .RAW image. The image contains a single partition.
I have created a loopback based device. I created a single partition on that device.
I'm writing my .RAW to the partition.
sudo dd if=/tmp/...
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What path to write a Windows ISO to create a bootable thumb drive?
Was looking to use PXE, but now just directly downloading the Windows 10 ISO as:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ ll /media/nicholas/
total 18
drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 5 Feb 19 18:23 ....
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Disk cloning trouble due to slight size mismatch between source and target
I tried to clone sdb onto sdc but that failed due to a marginal size mismatch. I tried recovery options using gdisk to no avail. What are my options now for starting again from scratch? The source ...
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From disk end, how to count MB (Megabytes) to the first non-zero location?
I am using Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64.
While re-purposing a disk using:
neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:'
Instead of long process of dd zero the whole disk just dd zero some first bytes of disk and then ...
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Doing a disk copy with dd on RAID1 devices on Ubuntu
I want to make exact copies of two drives using dd. The two drives are mounted on Ubuntu as a single RAID1 device. The RAID (consisting of two drives) is bootable. If I make exact copies of the two ...
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resize ext4 container file [closed]
I created an ext4 file container with 16GB of space.
dd if=/dev/zero of=./container_16GB.img bs=1M count=16384
mkfs.ext4 container.img
It is nor problem to mount this container file but is it also ...
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Issues while trying to make an ISO from a DVD in macOS
I have already read most of the questions and answers relating to this issue, which is supposed to be simple, but I still can't do it.
The unmount step goes ok:
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
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How to clone desktop NVMe into a bigger one?
I currently have a 2TB Samsung NVMe with several partitions, C being the system partition (Windows 11).
I purchased a 4TB WD NVMe that I'd like to upgrade to.
The Samsung is installed in one of the ...
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How to prevent small ISO from marking incorrect size on large target drive?
I am trying to write a 20GB iso to a 200GB hard disk. However, when I do this, the partition table from the ISO seems to carry the 20GB drive size marking with it, so that KDE Partition Manager thinks ...
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How to merge two drives into larger new one
I have a setup (UEFI) with two SSDs, which contain a Windows partition, a Linux partition, boot and swap partitions and a data partition. I want to move all of these to a single new SSD. How do I go ...
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