On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:34:53PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > If you just copy the first 4GB, which includes the partition table, > and put it on a 4GB drive, you will have a bogus partitions table (I > think). Maybe it will just "work" as long as you don't try to make new > partitons. Alternately, I don't know what it would take to repair it > although I'm sure it can be done. Thus the alternative of dumping > each partition may be safer. > I think all you'd have to do is use fdisk to delete the bogus partitions. But test it first with data that you don't care about!
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