Chris Jones wrote:
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
I think this is a stupid discussion. To you Chris, "How do you make
sure the destination partition is EXACTLY equal in byte size to the
source partition?".
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