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Allan <[email protected]>
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I hope someone can shed some light on using the command dd. I've been backing up my system using dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdx bs=some multiple of 512. This has been very useful when I have had to repair a broken partition and has proven very satisfactory since one drive is essentially a clone of the other. I know that dd does a bit by bit copy. What I don't know is if I can use dd to copy a partition to a different location on the same drive or to a differently numbered partition on another drive. In case this is not clear, I'd like to know if the following commands will work. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda5 or dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdc9. Can someone give me some guidance on this? Thanks in advance. Allan -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug