Re: Copy 2 partitions to .img file
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:34:53PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote:
> If you just copy the first 4GB, which includes the partition table,
> and put it on a 4GB drive, you will have a bogus partitions table (I
> think). Maybe it will just "work" as long as you don't try to make new
> partitons. Alternately, I don't know what it would take to repair it
> although I'm sure it can be done. Thus the alternative of dumping
> each partition may be safer.
>
I think all you'd have to do is use fdisk to delete the bogus
partitions. But test it first with data that you don't care about!
-Rob
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