Re: DD Rules

Karl Larsen wrote:

If you want to copy something big from one partition to another the old dd method is for you. You have to do it right. This means that:

1. The destination partition MUST be at least a byte larger than the source partition where the data is coming from. This is essential!


It must be at least exactly the same size. Why should it be a byte
larger?


6. Always run dd in the source computer.


I'm not sure what other computer you'd run it on. Do you
mean over a network? Or possibly you mean the system you
have mounted as /, in which case see 9.

9. When using dd to clone a partition have both the source and
destinations unomunted or at least mounted read only.

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