Best partitioning?

[John Summerfied]

Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:06 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote:
> 
>>>Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing?
>>
>>No.
> 
> 
> I wish people would stop saying this. It's not true, cp works just fine
> and as expected on devices (as does cat, btw), as long as the device
> doesn't require special handling (like CD burners, tapes, etc).
> 
>
I agree with Steff here. /dev/hda is (like everything else in *x) a 
file, and cp copies files just find.

Where instructions say to use dd to create a floppy, I mostly use cp.


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