Re: How Long To DD An SD Card

["D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>]

Try this:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress

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On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:43 PM K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have Debian i386 Bull'seye running on an old Asus 701, it's booting to a 32 GB SD card.
> I was trying to figure out with limited SD cards handy, how to install a clean install of Debian on another SD card, so I can customize it for a media server.
> The internal SDD is only 4GB and sometimes has issues, that is why I boot to an SD card.
> So what I'm doing now, and maybe it isn't the best way, is I'm doing a DD from the boot card to another SD card in a USB card reader.
> I confirmed it was showing as /dev/sdc, the boot up card is /dev/sdb.
> So I did:
> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc
> and I think it might be working, but there's no feedback, either it is hanging, or working without a report.
> Is there a better way to do this?
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn