On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > > 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. > > I think you're misunderstanding. If you use dd to copy, the > filesystem will be copied too. You /must/ not put a filesystem on > the larger partition before dding over. If necessary, zero it out > first. whether you zero the destination partition/disk isn't relevant, it will simply be overwritten, byte for byte, with the source data (perhaps leaving extraneous junk beyond that new filesystem that is now inaccesible). what *is* relevant is that i don't think karl understands how dd works. and until he does, this conversation is never going to die. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
