Jacques B. wrote: > 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. No. It will only overwrite the number of bytes that are copied. Bytes after that will be ignored. Thus, it's better to zero the partition first. Matt Flaschen
