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Check the size in blocks of /dev/hdx1.
Now you need to have an extra partition of the same size as /dev/hdx1, to be able to act safely. Suppose that you have an empty harddrive located at /dev/hdy.
Create a partition with the same size as /dev/hdx1. Here size is the size in blocks (each block is 1024 kB) of /dev/hdx1 taken from above.
Now copy the content of the original partition to that extra one.
This process may take quite a long time dependent of how big the partition is. You can get the job done faster by increasing the blocksize, bs, but then you need to get the division of the partition by bs to have a remainder of zero. From now on we will only work with that copy of the source partition to be able to step back if something goes wrong. |