Backup MBR to Image File
Make a copy of MBR (Master Boot Record) to a file.
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 #restore the MBR
17
Mar
Tag Archives: harddisk
22
Feb
Backup HDD To Remote Host
Make a backup of a local hard disk on remote host via ssh
dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | gzip | ssh user@ip_addr 'dd of=hda.gz'
29
Mar
Check for Badblocks on the HDD
Check bad blocks in disk hda1
badblocks -v /dev/hda1
24
Jan
Check for Bad Blocks in HDD
Linux Command to search the Harddisk for bad sectors
sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda
04
Sep
Find All Connected Harddisks
<p class=”intro”>If you have many IDE harddisks connected to the system(but not mounted), this command will find it. This will work for sata HDD as well if you use ‘sd’ instead of ‘hd'</p>
<pre><code class=”cli”>
ls /dev/hd*
</code></pre>
<p>Simple, is it not? To find the mounted drives just use the command ‘dh’.</p>
[tags]hda,harddisk,ide,sata,linux,command,hdd,partition[/tags]