[nmglug] Partitions

[Todd Richardson]

dd if=/dev/partition-to-copy of=/dev/partition-to-copy-to

so if you wanted a direct copy of your /dev/sda3 on /dev/sda4 it would
be:

dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sda4

I believe that is correct, but a linux guru might want to correct me.

HTH 

-Todd

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:10 -0700, VA wrote:
> I'm looking for Linux software to copy a partition to the same or a
> different drive.  I don't want to just copy files, I want to copy the
> entire partition, as is. 
> 
> QParted doesn't do it. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Virginia
> 
> 
> 
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