Jacques B. wrote: > Your first part is correct. You can dd a smaller partition onto an > equal or larger one. Are you sure you can dd onto (or rather into) a larger partition? I tried that some years ago, and it led to confusion, IIRC. I have successfully dd-ed onto a partition of exactly the same size, copying Windows (I think Windows-2000) onto a larger disk, when I didn't have the original CDs. I don't see any necessity to do this with Linux; dd is simply the wrong tool for the job. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
