I am trying to clone an SD card which may contain a number of partitions, some of which Ubuntu cannot recognize. Generally, I want to clone the whole volume, not only some partition. So, I mount the SD card and see something like this in the Log viewer:

kernel: [  262.025221]  sdc: sdc1 sdc2



alex@u120432:~$ ls /dev/sdc*

/dev/sdc  /dev/sdc1  /dev/sdc2

Since I want to copy the whole disk, I execute:

dd if=/dev/sdc of=sdimage.img bs=4M

File sdimage.img, 7.9 GB (7,944,011,776 bytes) is created (SD card is 8 GB). Now I mount another SD card and execute:

dd if=sdimage.img of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

The problem is that the second dd command hangs on some stage, and never succeeds. After this, I cannot reboot or shut down computer, and I need just to switch power off.

Is this the correct approach? Maybe there is another way to clone an SD card?

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), 32 bit.