LABEL's

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Aug 31 01:27:52 UTC 2007


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




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