Re: Partition duplication

[CyberPsychotic]

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> 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.
> 

 i would use dd if=/dev/partition1 of=/dev/partition2 .. if they are of
the same size on the same disk (or disk geometry is equal)
or

for f in `ls /root/partition1`
do
tar -cpvO $f | tar -x -C/root/partition2
done

in other cases.