[nflug] quick partition table mirroring

[Cyber Source]

Sorry, there would be a parenthesis " ( "required before "cd". Sloppy 
syntax can be expected I suppose when replying at close to midnight 
after a couple beers ;)

Cyber Source wrote:
> Individually I do partitions as such, with say /dev/sda1 mounted on 
> /mnt/disk and say /dev/sdb1 /mnt/orig with "tar cf - .|cd /mnt/disk && 
> tar xf -)" while in the /mnt/orig dir.
>
> Darin Perusich wrote:
>>
>> Mark Musone wrote:
>>> I think sfdisk will give you what you want..specifically, the -d 
>>> option:
>>>
>>>        -d     Dump  the partitions of a device in a format useful
>>>               as input to sfdisk. For example,
>>>                   % sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.out
>>>                   % sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.out
>>
>> That's what I was looking for, thanks! Now if GNU would only build 
>> the equivalent into parted ;-).
>>
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