> Thank you. I used the DD if= of= and it worked just fine. A real > experience that worked. I should have no sim-link problems with dd. It > just got 150 byte chunks of the from and stuck it in the to. > > Today I will put the copy in place of this and make sure it runs ect. > > > > -- > > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Unless you have a 10 gig partition on that 30 gig drive and that you are doing a dd of that partition onto the new drive, I am not convinced it will work (actually I suspect it will not work - at least not properly). Reason being the partition boundaries on that 30 gig drive would not work on the 10, and the # of inodes in the inode table on a 30 gig would not work, and I'm sure other stuff would not be the same. And dd being what it is, all those things would be part of the bit by bit copy of the first 10 gigs on that 30 gig drive onto the 10 gig drive. Browsing your newly created /dev/sdb5 will likely not manifest in any problems. But trying to use it most likely will (if not now, later) cause serious problems. Jacques B.
