On Saturday 1 September 2007 4:12:02 pm Karl Larsen wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > Karl Larsen wrote: > >> If you want to copy something big from one partition to another > >> the old dd method is for you. You have to do it right. This means that: > >> > >> 1. The destination partition MUST be at least a byte larger than the > >> source partition where the data is coming from. This is essential! > > > > This isn't true. Can you explain why you think it is? > > Yes I can. My first try with dd I tried to put a 40GB partition into > a 20GB partition and dd errored out. Then I read man dd. Erm, what. Please explain how the fact that you cannot squeeze a 40G partition into a 20G one, something I would have thought obvious, leads you to the conclusion that the destination has to be bigger than the source. All this proves is 40 > 20 : hardly ground a breaking discovery... For the record the destination has to be THE SAME size or bigger. There is no requirement (I am aware of) that it must be at least a byte bigger.... Chris
