On Fri, 8 May 1998, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Nicolas Moeri wrote:
>
> > I would like to duplicate a partition to have an exact copy in case where
> > my main partition crashes. What is the best way to do this in particular
> > to copy the special files.
>
> You can either copy the raw partition contents with dd, e.g.
>
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda2
Don't you also have to be sure that you use the right block size (bs=)?
I think I heard that this is very important. But I've never tried it, so
I don't know.
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