[Cialug] dd only allocated space?

[L. V. Lammert]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 khamil8686 at gmail.com wrote:

> Dd the very beginning of the drive as well, uefi 1024 blocks, mbr 512 blocks
>
> Dd if=/dev/sda count=1024 of=/home/you/sda_boot_backup
>
> Then do sda1,2,3,4
>
> Might want to concatenate all those files so you have one big .img that
> you can restore to the other drive. Otherwise, just do boot, 1,2,3,4,5
>
I can see that working, .. might be the simplest to actually implement.

	Thanks!

	Lee