Best partitioning?

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:26:36AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> 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.

dd has the advantage of letting you specify block size, and so is often
somewhat faster.

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