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How to re-size partitions in a complete hard drive image?

I have taken a complete image of a hard drive using: dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/user/harddriveimg bs=4M It would seem to me, that I should be able to re-size the partitions within it after suitably ...
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Writing data on particular sectors or blocks

Not sure if it's better suited for superuser of serverfault boards, let me know. I have a drive which I repartitioned with fdisk. Initially there was only one big partition, now there are a number ...
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Comparison of raw block devices

Is there a utility (or some shell magic) that allows me to compare two block devices? Details: I have one large (0.5 TB) RAID device that I've backed up to a slightly larger SATA device using dd. ...