[NTLUG:Discuss] DD Assistance?

[Val W. Harris]

Fred Hensley wrote:
> I have received a vendor-generated image file (dsclinux-32.img) provided
> for installation onto a proprietary 32MB flash disk module.  The
> bytes-per-sector for the flash module appears to be 1K.  The image file
> is supposed to create a complete ext2 formatted tiny linux system for an
> embedded single board computer (SBC). 
> 
...
> dd if=dsclinux-32.img ibs=1k of=/dev/sdb1 obs=512
> 
...
> 
> Anyone notice anything obvious (or slippery) I am missing here?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> Fred Hensley

Fred,

dd does a bit by bit copy.  The filesystem of the input is overwriting 
your filesystem on the output device.


Val
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