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[Karl Larsen]

Jacques B. wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> 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.
>>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>     
>
> So many threads started for the exact same issue....
>
> Your first part is correct.  You can dd a smaller partition onto an
> equal or larger one.
>
> 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.  If the source had a file system, then the destination
> will have that file system because ... dd copied EVERYTHING (even the
> file system attributes).
>
> Jacques B.
>
>   
    Great. Then why did it not work? It seems to be so close.



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