How to Clone a flashdrive in Linux?

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cphadmin · Answer 1 · 2023-10-26T15:09:23+0000

Run lsblk to get the file paths of your devices
Use dd if='/dev/[source file/device path]' of='/dev/[destination file/device path] bs=4m
Change the bs=4m to suit your needs if you're copying a huge file.
Complete command: sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdd bs=64M && sync
which datadumps from input file (if=) device sdc to output file (of=) device sdd, bs= is the number of bytes copied at a time.
After it completes it syncs (forces write out of any unwritten buffers [still in memory]) to allow removal.
Of course change sdc & sdd to be what is appropriate