>> "MP" == Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au> writes: MP> 100 Meg root partition MP> 3 Gig /usr partition MP> 100 Meg root partition - identical copy MP> This is just in case one root partition dies - I'll have a backup. What MP> is the best way to make the second root partition an identical copy? dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024 also check man dd Ciao, Martin