[nmglug] Partitions

BrianO'Keefe okeefe at cybermesa.com
Wed Jun 11 15:20:38 PDT 2008


I used dd to copy my entire hard drive and all the partitions but if you
know your partition locations you can pick and choose. Check "man dd" or
"info dd" in a terminal. This is what I used to copy my drive to another
drive:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=32768



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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