DD not working--SUCCESS!
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Sep 1 15:37:31 UTC 2007
Chris Jones wrote:
> On Saturday 1 September 2007 4:12:02 pm Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you want to copy something big from one partition to another
>>>> the old dd method is for you. You have to do it right. This means that:
>>>>
>>>> 1. The destination partition MUST be at least a byte larger than the
>>>> source partition where the data is coming from. This is essential!
>>>>
>>> This isn't true. Can you explain why you think it is?
>>>
>> Yes I can. My first try with dd I tried to put a 40GB partition into
>> a 20GB partition and dd errored out. Then I read man dd.
>>
>
> Erm, what.
>
> Please explain how the fact that you cannot squeeze a 40G partition into a 20G
> one, something I would have thought obvious, leads you to the conclusion that
> the destination has to be bigger than the source.
>
> All this proves is 40 > 20 : hardly ground a breaking discovery...
>
> For the record the destination has to be THE SAME size or bigger. There is no
> requirement (I am aware of) that it must be at least a byte bigger....
>
> Chris
>
>
I think this is a stupid discussion. To you Chris, "How do you make
sure the destination partition is EXACTLY equal in byte size to the
source partition?".
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