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I'm in the process of cloning my hard disk in order to test some unstable software.
One of the partitions is Linux-swap. From my understanding, it can be used by the os as additional ram. So this does not need to be cloned right?
Additionally: The disk I have has a capacity ~120 GB, while my original drive is ~250GB (though only about 70 GB are used). Since I can not dd, I created the partitions manually and I'm currently using rsync to "clone" the partitions. Is this the best way to do it? How do I make it bootable?
That's what I thought; also because I never see swap partitions mounted anywhere. But won't copying /boot to the first partition and making that partition bootable work? – Nate – 2012-01-30T13:51:42.630
That won't copy the MBR, so when it starts it won't know where to look for the boot information. – Rob – 2012-01-30T15:26:31.483