Bit copy of encrypted home and other partitions

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Published on 2012-11-23T20:23:11Z Indexed on 2012/11/23 23:21 UTC
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My laptop is overheating so I need to save all my files before I format the hard drive. I learned how to copy dev/sdX using dd command. However, I am not sure what to copy.

Picture from GParted here: http://is.muni.cz/www/256590/fig.png

should I copy sda5 and sda6 only? Or sda2 and sda1? I do not need to use these data on another disk, I just want to be able to access them - therefore I want to put them on external hard drive.

And last question - how I will then mount my encrypted home? Will it work?

Thanks a lot!

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