DD not working

[Karl Larsen]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> mount: /dev/sdb5 already mounted or /mnt busy
>>
>> The last 2 lines say that /dev/sdb5 is mounted to this Old Hard Drive 
>> somehow. I did not do this. /etc/fsack did not do this. So not sure what 
>
> Yes you did. See your opening mail of the thread titled 'dd and cp -a' 
> in which you say that you mounted it to /mnt, but didn't mention how. 
> I am assuming you made it permanent by adding it to fstab. And if you 
> did this, dd'ing the partition would take this setting over to the new 
> drive.
>
    Guys I am getting a information overload. My question is simple now. 
If I do it right is it possible to use dd to make a copy of this F7 to 
another Hard Drive?

    Also you NEVER mount a partition that your dd transfering too. It 
finds it fine.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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