9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
14:09
On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd. It copies partitions, not disks. It makes partition images, not disk images.
This is true if to copy partition, but dd can copy entire disks as well. No
pre-partitioning required in that case.
I recently backed up an entire disk with three partitions (including one
encrypted) to a new disk (same model) without partitioning. Something along
the lines of
dd if=/dev/