Re: LABEL's

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, 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.

whether you zero the destination partition/disk isn't relevant, it
will simply be overwritten, byte for byte, with the source data
(perhaps leaving extraneous junk beyond that new filesystem that is
now inaccesible).

what *is* relevant is that i don't think karl understands how dd
works. and until he does, this conversation is never going to die.

rday
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