On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:24:30PM +0200, Harm Behrens wrote: > is there a easy way to copy over the partition-layout or do I have to use > cfdisk to create every single partition? dd if=/dev/correctdevice of=/dev/newdevice bs=512 count=1 Simplest I know off. Does NOT work if you have extended partitions however. hdparm -z /dev/newdevice will make the kernel reread the partition table. -- Len Sorensen