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Re: Formatting external HDD



On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 05:54:32PM +0100, Lisi wrote:

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> Would it be feasible ot have one large partition on the drive, and then use 
> directories rather than partitions for the different back-ups?  Could I do 
> this with cp (obviously), dd, rsync, Clonezilla, or even something I don't 
> know about yet?  Would this be a reasonable plan?

That's the way I do it, using rsync to back up 3 OS's to separate
directories.

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