[Cialug] dd Windoze partition

[Scott Yates]

You might get more of a helpful response if you used regular terms instead
of pejoratives like "winblows".

As for the windows partition, you might just be able to do a physical to
virtual on it, and convert it into a VM so you could manage it in your
preferred OS.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:53 AM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have used dd to move around a Windows partition before and it worked
> flawlessly. I just keep it around for those programs that are WInblows
> only. This time, I have Windows as a primary partition but I wanted to get
> UEFI boot working to learn about it. So I dd backed up my 100Gb Winblows
> partition and installed OpenSUSE in UEFI mode and took up the entire drive.
> I want to resize my physical/volume group since my logical volumes combined
> don’t take up the entire drive. This leaves 75Gb for a 100Gb Winblows
> partition. Think if I dd restore winblows to the last partition on my drive
> after resizing the pv and use a windows tool to repair the partition that I
> would have a working winblows install once I reinstalled uefi grub?
>
> Damn… just remembered that I would also have to break up the /dev/sda3
> partition after resizing my pv so I can create /dev/sda4… I believe I have
> done this before, and it will keep the partition signatures intact as long
> as you specify the exact same blocks…
>
> Maybe I should just re-install opensuse and make it smaller for my
> emergency winblows?
>
> Thoughts, questions, suggestions, comments, rants, insults, throwing
> rotten fruit anyone?
> Ty, Kyle
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