How to duplicate a SD card with 2 partitions under Debian
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How to duplicate a SD card with 2 partitions under Debian
For my cell phone, I used an app named link2sd with a SD card. Because the current 8GB card is filled up, I got a 32GB card to take its place. For the link2sd app, the SD card is partitioned into 2 partitions. First partition is formatted to fat32 and the 2nd one is ext2 format. What is the proper way to copy content of these partitions to the new card? Thanks in advance.
It depends on the data. Most common users can use any number of file by file tools. tar is a way to move files and has an advantage in some ways. If you have programs that are tied to a very specific location then you may have trouble with any sort of copy.
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The utility tar just puts all files into a single archive (file), but if you use gzip you can compress the archive as well.
Then you just extract the archive (tar or tar.gz) onto your new disk.
(Create your partitioning scheme first.)
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