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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:53:59
Message-Id: 20180830165346.GA1955@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition by Philip Webb
1 180825 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > Thanks for the replies :
3 > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test.
4
5 I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick,
6 then copied them back to another partition, updated Lilo
7 & it booted successfully into the new partition, which works the same.
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