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Ian Malone
ibmalone at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 20:23:00 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
> I will wear it and just read info dd for about the 4th time in 5
> days. The first time I read it I was not aware that dd sends Everything
> including the file system. The info dd does not say this.
>
"Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands."
You applied it to a block device. Maybe it would have been worth
knowing what you were doing.
> I tried to copy this f7 which is about 8 Gbytes to another partition
> that was 10 Gbytes. The transfer failed because the 8 Gbyte f7 was from
> a 40 Gbyte partition :-)
> If you read everything in info dd you will not see this listed.
>
10 < 40. Not sure what more needs to be said here.
> So it may be time to get the author of the dd info to add something
> about large copies and the use of the Rescue CD.
>
You're serious?
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imalone
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