A systems administrator needs to clone the partition /dev/sdc1 to /dev/sdd1. Which of the following commands will accomplish this task?

The correct answer is C. dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdd1. The command dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdd1 copies the data from the input file (if) /dev/sdc1 to the output file (of) /dev/sdd1, byte by byte. This is the correct way to clone a partition.

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Atar -cvzf /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1
Brsync /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
Cdd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdd1
Dscp /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

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The command dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdd1 copies the data from the input file (if) /dev/sdc1 to the output file (of) /dev/sdd1, byte by byte. This is the correct way to clone a partition.

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#dd command#Partition cloning#Disk management#Linux commands

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