<snip> >I think dd will > work fine IFF the partition your sending data to is larger than the one > it is coming from, and you do NOT put a file system in the destination > partition. > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI So many threads started for the exact same issue.... Your first part is correct. You can dd a smaller partition onto an equal or larger one. Your second part is incorrect. It does not matter if there is a file system or not (ANY file system) when copying from device/partition to device/partition (i.e. if=/dev/???? and of=/dev/????). dd OVERWRITES EVERYTHING. If the source had a file system, then the destination will have that file system because ... dd copied EVERYTHING (even the file system attributes). Jacques B.
