Windows 7 dual boot with Linux

[Matt Graham]

On 2015-01-12 03:54, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
> Clone your Window$ with:
> mount -tntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
> (cd /mnt/sda1;tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt/sdb1;tar xf -)

I thought that NTFS had a number of things like non-Unixy file 
permissions and alternate file streams that tar is not aware of and 
can't replicate.  I also thought that Windows still has a few things 
that require absolute sector positions, like the swapfile.  If it's 
possible to back up a Windows-on-NTFS drive with mount and tar, that's 
great--but I thought it was unlikely.

I have usually used partimage to back up and restore Windows 
partitions.  That works.  The downside is that it only does a partition 
at a time....

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