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Copying a bootable USB drive

Posted on 2013/01/21 by kauer
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I was trying to make a copy of a bootable USB stick. In spite of both sticks (source and destination) being allegedly the same size, the destination stick was in fact slightly smaller than the source stick, so a simple blockwise copy using dd did not work – “no space left on device”.

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