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Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Aug 31 01:44:42 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I think you're misunderstanding.  If you use dd to copy, the filesystem
> will be copied too.  You /must/ not put a filesystem on the larger
> partition before dding over.  If necessary, zero it out first.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>   
    I thought that was what I said :-)


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