Bug#738864: Remove copy operation for parted3 transition

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

13.02.2014 20:45, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Package: partman-partitioning
> Tags: patch
> 
> This patch removes the copy operation from the partman menu in
> preparation for the parted3 transition, which no longer supports this.
> 

Out of curiocity, why libparted is needed to copy a partition
into some other place?  How about

  dd if=/dev/source-partition of=/dev/dest-partition

?

(Well, with proper options, maybe with iflag=direct etc, but that's
details).

Thanks,

/mjt