Re: LABEL's

From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:07 -0400

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

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