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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Clone one partition and boot from USB Post 302830625 by menda on Tuesday 9th of July 2013 07:41:06 AM

07-09-2013

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Clone one partition and boot from USB

I have small problem: my hard drive has 500GB storage and it is divided into partitions

Code:

/dev/sda1 - 20 GB (boot)
/dev/sda2 - rest

I want to clone only one partition

Code:

/dev/sda1

and write all data on my USB stick

Code:

/dev/sdb

What's more I want to make my USB bootable and I don't know at all how can I do that (if it is possible to clone only one partition and properly modify MBR in order to boot from USB).

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