MVWT disk reimaging

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Copying the information off of the old disk

  • Mount the flash disk in a working computer
  • dd if=/dev/hdd1 of=flash.dd

Format tje new disk

  • fdisk /dev/hdd (not completely sure about partitions; check domitilla's document)
  • mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdd1

Copy the information back onto the new disk

  • dd if=flash.dd of=/dev/hdd1
  • mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/flash
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