Re: LABEL's

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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