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Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

From Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso
Date 2017-03-07 15:20 +0100
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* GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> [2017-03-07 00:11 +0000]:

> I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong,  I
> can't locate any documentation that results into proper options.
> I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had 1.7gb
> of data on it.
> I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=usbfilename.iso
> The resulting image was the full size of the disk.

/dev/sdX is always the whole device. If you want the two partitions
sepearated you have to choose /dev/sdXA, which in your case should
be /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 I assume.

Elimar
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Some help with dd backing up into an iso GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-07 01:20 +0100
  Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-03-07 02:10 +0100
  Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-07 06:10 +0100
    Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-07 07:00 +0100
      Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-07 09:00 +0100
        Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-07 18:30 +0100
          Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-07 20:20 +0100
            Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-08 05:00 +0100
              Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-08 07:00 +0100
              Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-08 12:10 +0100
                MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first  partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-09 06:50 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-03-09 08:00 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-10 06:10 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-10 10:00 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-11 07:10 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-13 10:10 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-14 04:40 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 11:40 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-15 03:50 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-03-14 13:00 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-15 04:10 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-03-15 04:40 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-15 13:00 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before first partition "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-09 08:30 +0100
                Re: MBR partitioning, and content after partition table but before  first partition Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-09 15:40 +0100
    Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-03-07 09:30 +0100
      Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-07 09:40 +0100
        Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-03-07 10:00 +0100
          Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-07 10:10 +0100
          Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 16:20 +0100
      Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-07 11:10 +0100
      Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-08 06:00 +0100
  Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 12:10 +0100
  Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-03-07 14:50 +0100
  Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2017-03-07 15:20 +0100
  Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 16:20 +0100
    Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-07 18:10 +0100
      Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 19:00 +0100
        Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-07 20:30 +0100
          Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 21:30 +0100
            Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-07 22:10 +0100
              Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-08 18:30 +0100
                Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-08 19:20 +0100

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