Re: LABEL's

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
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 :-)

No, you said "do NOT put a filesystem in the destination partition".
You are putting a filesystem, but you're doing it through dd.

Matt FLaschen

The glass is exactly half full...or empty :-)



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