This can be achieved by numerous ways.

One can either use methods native to the Operating system or use software utilities .

Linux is an OS which is loved by computer professionals worldwide.

Linux users like to partition their HDD and format them to different file-systems .

Linux provides two built in ways- use ofddandcatcommands for cloning one partition to another.

Ill discuss each of them and at the end enlist some GUI based software utilities.

Cloning a partition using dd command

The dd command is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool.

A convenient method is to use dd from a live environment, as in a Live CD.

( Be careful in choosing values for if and of attributes.

Interchanging values will format your source partition and you will end up with loss of data.)

Cloning a partition

From physical disk /dev/sda, partition 1, to physical disk /dev/sdb, partition 1.

Use a bigger value, 64K or 128K.

When you set bs, you effectively set both IBS and OBS.

But if a read error occurs, things will go wrong.

a single 512-byte read error will mess up the whole 64 KiB output block.

If everything goes as planned, this will cmone your partition to the target partition.

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt# ls /mnt# ls /boot

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Now you could compare the original partition with/mntto confirm that cloning has been successfully completed.

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