copying partitions

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On 5/17/05, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
<kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com> wrote:
> Anyone know of a good tool to copy an entire Linux partition (i.e. a red hat
> vmware  instance under windows) so that it will successfully boot as A) a
> restore and B) on another identical box.

You shouldn't need to copy a partition - VMWare stores disk info to
files unless you chose to write to raw disk.  Just copy the directory
that the guest lives in to another machine and you should be fine.

If you did choose to use raw partitions then you could use dd.

LW