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Operating Systems Linux Gentoo How to copy single partition? Post 302085661 by siegfried on Friday 18th of August 2006 04:53:50 PM
Old 08-18-2006
How to copy single partition?
I presently backup my multi-OS multi-paritition boot drive (fedora core 4/ext3, WinXPServer/NTFS, WinXPHome/FAT32) with the command:

telinit 1; cp /dev/sda /dev/sdb

And this works.


Is there a command to only copy a single partition instead of an entire device?

And what about the grub stuff. Is that in a partition? My grub stuff is corrupted or the grub.conf file is bad. I can boot windows manually via grub but not fedora. How can I restore the grub and linux partitions but not the windows partition?

Thanks,
siegfried
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

grub-probe

GRUB-PROBE(8)						  System Administration Utilities					     GRUB-PROBE(8)

NAME

       grub-probe - probe device information for GRUB

SYNOPSIS

       grub-probe [OPTION]... [PATH|DEVICE]

DESCRIPTION

       Probe device information for a given path (or device, if the -d option is given).

       -d, --device
	      given argument is a system device, not a path

       -m, --device-map=FILE
	      use FILE as the device map [default=/boot/grub/device.map]

       -t, --target=(fs|fs_uuid|fs_label|drive|device|partmap|abstraction)
	      print filesystem module, GRUB drive, system device, partition map module or abstraction module [default=fs]

       -h, --help
	      display this message and exit

       -V, --version
	      print version information and exit

       -v, --verbose
	      print verbose messages

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub-fstest(1)

       The  full  documentation  for  grub-probe is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and grub-probe programs are properly installed at
       your site, the command

	      info grub-probe

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub-probe (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5				   October 2011 						     GRUB-PROBE(8)
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