[CentOS] imaging a drive with dd

fred roller fredroller66 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 02:06:52 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:

> dd if=/dev/sdb of=os.img bs=1M count=3210
>

I would recommend bs=512 to keep the block sizes the same though not a huge
diff just seems to be happier for some reason and add status=progress if
you would like to monitor how it is doing.  Seems the command you have
should work otherwise.



More information about the CentOS mailing list