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I am very new to linux. What are the commands i can use to see the blocks of a specific partition. Someone suggested dd, but i am not able to understand how to do this. Help will be very much appreciated.. thanks
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I guess you could use dd to read specific sectors of the disc and write it to a file which you could then look at, but I don't think that's what you're trying to do. dd may not be the solution in this case. Could you provide a little more background on the problem you're trying to solve?
I am actually looking for source code for a function that can show how the system is partioned, and how i can access the volumes. i need to understand this for doing a block by block copy.
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