sfdisk is a program to copy partition information. This is for disks with MBR partition. Use sgdisk if you have GPT partition table.
To save partition info, run
sfdisk -d /dev/sda > part_table
To restore
sfdisk /dev/sda < part_table
Copy Partition to Another Disk
This is useful when you setting up raid or when you want to replace a disk in raid.
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
Once copied, you may need to run
sfdisk -R /dev/sdb
So Linux kernal will read the new partition.
See hdd
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