copying partitions

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, linux.whiz at gmail.com wrote:

> You shouldn't need to copy a partition - VMWare stores disk info to
> files unless you chose to write to raw disk.  Just copy the directory
> that the guest lives in to another machine and you should be fine.
>
> If you did choose to use raw partitions then you could use dd.

Not cp?

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