On 24/08/18 20:53, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:09 AM Mick wrote:
>> However, you may prefer to use clonezilla instead of dd. The dd command will
>> copy each and every bit and byte of the partition whether it has data on it
>> or
>> not. It is not particularly efficient. Cl
Thus spoke Adam Carter (adamcart...@gmail.com):
> For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki still
> does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on a system
> whose other filesystems are ext4) these days? AFAIK for systems that have
> /boot on an SSD, ext4 ma
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:09 AM Mick wrote:
>
> However, you may prefer to use clonezilla instead of dd. The dd command will
> copy each and every bit and byte of the partition whether it has data on it or
> not. It is not particularly efficient. Clonezilla will perform better at
> this task.
>
On Friday, 24 August 2018 09:32:23 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it,
> if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ;
> it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions.
You are looking to clone a partition. This is a
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:32:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it,
> if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ;
> it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions.
>
> Can I use 'dd' ? -- eg 'dd if=/mnt/xxx of=/mnt
Dear Philip,
On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 04:32:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it,
> if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ;
> it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions.
>
> Can I use 'dd' ? -- eg 'dd if=/
I want to make a copy of a partition which I can use to replace it,
if some catastrophe damages the partition or wipes it out ;
it needs to be byte-byte identical, incl all permissions.
Can I use 'dd' ? -- eg 'dd if=/mnt/xxx of=/mnt/yyy',
where the partition has been mounted at /mnt/xxx
& a USB s
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