Linux Disk Operations

Give labels to partitions:

For ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions:

e2label /dev/XXX <label>

For FAT/VFAT partitions:

fatlabel /dev/XXX <label>

For ntfs partitions:

ntfslabel /dev/XXX <label>

For swap partitions:

swaplabel /dev/XXX <label>

Dump (or clone) a disk:

dd if=<source_file_name> of=<target_file_name>

Example

dd if =/dev/sda of=/homepi/cloning/name_of_image.img