Tutorial: cloning your Linux Lite drive using the 'dd' command.

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So you copy the whole disk? I like to clone only what is relevant, so for example the OS or data. The way Clonezilla does it. Livecd/-usb is also nice.
Or maybe I don't read you right? 

Thanks rijnsma.
Yes I copy the whole disk. The objective of the tutorial was to simply clone the whole OS drive as, in my case, LL occupies the whole drive. Sorry for not making that a bit clearer at the outset, though the title does refer to cloning a drive - not a partition.

Apparently, you can use 'dd' to clone specific partitions but I haven't had the need to do this yet.
I assume (NB: this is an assumption as I haven't checked it yet !)  that if you wanted to clone a specific partition (let's call it /dev/sda7 on drive /dev/sda) to drive /dev/sdb, then it would probably be as follows:

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda7 of=/dev/sdb