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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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GRUB(8) 								FSF								   GRUB(8)

NAME
grub - the grub shell SYNOPSIS
grub [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Enter the GRand Unified Bootloader command shell. --batch turn on batch mode for non-interactive use --boot-drive=DRIVE specify stage2 boot_drive [default=0x0] --config-file=FILE specify stage2 config_file [default=/boot/grub/grub.conf] --device-map=FILE use the device map file FILE --help display this message and exit --hold wait until a debugger will attach --install-partition=PAR specify stage2 install_partition [default=0x20000] --no-config-file do not use the config file --no-curses do not use curses --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --no-pager do not use internal pager --preset-menu use the preset menu --probe-second-floppy probe the second floppy drive --read-only do not write anything to devices --verbose print verbose messages --version print version information and exit REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub should give you access to the complete manual. grub (GNU GRUB 0.93) December 2002 GRUB(8)
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