Re: LABEL's

From: Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:44:42 -0600

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.

Matt Flaschen

I thought that was what I said :-)

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