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Re: DD not working--SUCCESS!
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>
- To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: DD not working--SUCCESS!
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:35:39 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 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!
> >
> > This isn't true. Can you explain why you think it is?
> Yes I can. My first try with dd I tried to put a 40GB partition
> into a 20GB partition and dd errored out. Then I read man dd.
just kill me now, lord.
rday
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