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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