Creating binary image of pendrive using dd
I needed to create a binary image of a pendrive to be able to restore it later. I used dd
command for that:
dd if=/dev/disk2 of=./pendrive_bkp.bin bs=512
continue after error: skip and restart are in blocks, so you need to divide returned bytes by block size to get the block number
dd if=/dev/disk2 of=./pendrive_bkp.bin bs=512 seek=1000 skip=1000
On mac You will probably need to prefix dd
with sudo
That's it for this post, thanks for reading!