copying partitions

[James Wilkinson]

linux.whiz at gmail.com wrote:
> If you did choose to use raw partitions then you could use dd.

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Not cp?

What would you copy? The device node (e.g. /dev/hda7)? That's just a
pointer to the data.

If the Original Poster is using raw partitions for some obscure reason,
there's nothing to mount and no individual files to copy, so you can't
use cp.

James.

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