How do I ghost or copy a partition to another drive?

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Depending on the contents of the partitions, various UNIX utilities can be used to copy data between drives. The easiest utility to use is the cp command, which will copy data on the partition to the location you specify. If you need to move additional data (metadata usually not stored on the file system as actual files) then the dd command can be used to perform a bi...

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