How to copy a Fedora system?

[John Summerfield]

jdow wrote:
>

>> to another partition?
> 
> 
> Some people speak of using rsync. Some speak of using tar. I tend towards
> being funky about it and using dd for the whole source disk and then VERY
> carefully hand patching the new disk's boot sector so the correct size
> disk is mentioned. Then I can fdisk in new partitions as needed.
> 
> {^_-}
> 

parted should do it too. A challenge with dd is resizing multiple 
partitions, a limitation is the source cannot be greater than the 
destination.


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