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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: diskette duplication--exactly
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> Dear Sir/Madam:
> 
> How to duplicate "exactly" a diskette, including everything --
> partition tables, bad sectors, file system, file, time stamp, ... BIT
> BY BIT?

You could use dd(1), eg the following should work:
(insert first floppy)
  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=some.file
(remove first floppy, insert second floppy)
  dd if=some.file of=/dev/fd0

Rahul.


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