Talk:Bootable USB flash drive utilities

The Deadly dd Command

Copy a drive to another

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

Create an ISO image from DVD

dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvd.iso

Wipe the partition (like wipedisk)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Copy drive to compressed archive (make sure destination is not the same)

dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > hda.img.gz

Backup image of MBR and partition table

dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/sam/MBR.image bs=512 count=1