Backing up with dd, and creating a file system on a new drive.

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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:55:59 -0600, Justin Gruenberg wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>> Can I use gparted to create an ntfs volume of the drive first, then use
>> dd to image the small one, or can I run dd on the unformatted drive
>> first to create the backup partitions?

Look at: http://www.minihowto.org

There are a couple of short minihowtos about dd backup.

I have all my ubunut distributions of 30 gb size