imaging pen drive using dd
 

HI i want to image my pen drive using dd command
i tried

dd if=/media/disk of=/media/disk-1/images.img

where disk is my pen drive and disk-1 is my hard disk
I boot and run the pc using linux bootable cd

Pranks

I am not too sure what your question is, but your syntax is basically correct assuming that you are wanting to write the image file (images.img) to a second mounted device (disk-1).

If I am reading your post correctly, you appear to want to copy one pen drive to another (?) which won't happen with the code you have used.

The simplest way is to create a "dd" image on your local machine then use a similar command to write the image file to the second device.

Something like:
<this will copy the physical device at /media/disk, in blocks of 512 bytes to a file called images.img. The final part of the string basically tells dd to not stop if it finds an error (it will pad the bad sectors with zero's) and to align the blocks in both copies>

As I said, that is theory based on my perception of what you are trying to do. If I have got it wrong then by all means shout up and put me right!

Bubo

I forgot to say, I wrote a short blog article some time ago on the basics of using dd. The blog fell by the way side long ago but the article can still be found here

thnx
 

Thnx a lot for prompt reply.
I was trying to copy pen drive data to hard disk.
Actually i was taking wrong path for pendrive .