How to backup Windows XP/7 partition with Linux (Ubuntu)
Aug 23, 2011 • @dcodernz
To backup any partition of any file system type with Linux, you can simply run the following command:
You can then compress the file using a normal archiver and save a lot of space that way, because dd constructs a file as big as the partition because it reads bit by bit or 4096 bytes multiple times.
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