[PLUG] [Update] -- Re: Copying all partitions of a drive to single partition/directory?

[Louis Kowolowski]

On Jan 23, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> 
> On 01/05/2019 07:26 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:
>> I glanced too quickly at that Montana State page... What I wanted wasn't
>> there.
>> Look at the 'mount' Man page, specifically the section on "The Loop
>> Device": https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 05:18 Tyrell Jentink <tyrell at jentink.net wrote:
>>> [snip] ... This article appears to cover the ins and outs pretty well,
>>> although I just glanced over it...
>>> 
>>> http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/cs560/VFS/mount.html
>>> 
> 
> Actually following chains of links from
> http://www.cs.montana.edu/~andrew.hamilton/ is leading in potentially useful directions.
> 
> As to "[Update]", pondering this thread and my tread about "back up methods" has lead to a preliminary goal re-specification.
> 
> Partition images may be overkill. It looks like:
>  /home
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/
>  a yet undefined subset of /usr
> will actually be more useful.
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
If Linux supports dump & restore, that might be a viable way to read all the data per-partition, and then you could restore it all to the same destination. 

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