[nflug] quick partition table mirroring

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Sep 5 23:41:36 EDT 2008


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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