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Bug#738864: Remove copy operation for parted3 transition



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On 2/13/2014 12:08 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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).

I suppose it is theoretically possible.  I just never thought the
option was useful in the first place and don't really have a desire to
try to get that working, so removing it was the simplest thing to do.


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