Jacques B. wrote:
<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 K5DISo 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.
Great. Then why did it not work? It seems to be so close. -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org.
