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Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 31 05:51:23 UTC 2007
On Thu, 30 Aug 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.
whether you zero the destination partition/disk isn't relevant, it
will simply be overwritten, byte for byte, with the source data
(perhaps leaving extraneous junk beyond that new filesystem that is
now inaccesible).
what *is* relevant is that i don't think karl understands how dd
works. and until he does, this conversation is never going to die.
rday
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