No

[Ian Malone]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>    I will wear it and just read info dd for about the 4th time in 5 
> days. The first time I read it I was not aware that dd sends Everything 
> including the file system. The info dd does not say this.
> 

"Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands."
You applied it to a block device.  Maybe it would have been worth
knowing what you were doing.

>    I tried to copy this f7 which is about 8 Gbytes to another partition 
> that was 10 Gbytes. The transfer failed because the 8 Gbyte f7 was from 
> a 40 Gbyte partition :-)
> If you read everything in info dd you will not see this listed.
> 

10 < 40.  Not sure what more needs to be said here.

>    So it may be time to get the author of the dd info to add something 
> about large copies and the use of the Rescue CD.
> 

You're serious?

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imalone