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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] hd.img use
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:37:26PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> On Tuesday 03 December 2013 14:16:42, Antonio Righettini wrote:
> > I have already try, dd commnad finish without errors, but the disk doesn't
> > contain data.
> > 
> > I used this command :
> > 
> > dd if=/.../hd.img of=/dev/sdc
> > 
> > where sdc is my device (hard disk)
> > 
> > I can not see any partition on hard disk.
> 
> When you write an image (containing an MBR) to a currently attached disk, you need to call partprobe afterwards to update the partition table.
> 
> Regards,
> Alexander
> 
> BTW: no need for dd here. you can simply use cat /.../hd.img > /dev/sdc which is faster on some hardware
> 
To make it faster you need call dd with a "correct" bs size.

- Alex

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