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Re: format on SD card?

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On 31/10/2018 21.59, nospam wrote:
> In article <eli$1810311645@qaz.wtf>, Eli the Bearded
> <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> At the same time, I used dd[*] to copy the SD card to a new one of the
>>>> same size. I put the new one in the device and restarted, and found
>>>> that Android decided it was a blank disk and reformatted it. How can
>>>> I duplicate a SD card so that Android is happy with the copy?
>>> crack the encryption. good luck.
>>
>> I don't think I should need to crack the encryption to do a block level
>> copy of one card to another:
> 
> apparently it's tied to something unique about the card, which is a
> good thing from a security standpoint.

There is a serial number on hard disks. "hdparm -i [or -I] /dev/sdX"
(Linux) can print it. I don't know if mem cards have this, too.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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format on SD card? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-10-31 19:34 +0000
  Re: format on SD card? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-31 15:52 -0400
    Re: format on SD card? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-10-31 20:51 +0000
      Re: format on SD card? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-31 16:59 -0400
        Re: format on SD card? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-10-31 22:53 +0100
    Re: format on SD card? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-10-31 22:59 +0100
  Re: format on SD card? "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-10-31 19:52 +0000
    Re: format on SD card? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-10-31 22:56 +0100

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