Copying partitions on same disk

[Prashant Kumar <prashkr@cse.iitk.ac.in>]

How do  copy my / containing directory root boot tmp bin
proc etc to a different partition of same disk.

I used dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda4 but it seems to "hang".

cp -up could not handle /tmp correctly

Thank in advance for your reply.

Prashant kumar
home page http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/prashkr
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