I'd be surprised if dd was anybody's first choice as a backup utility, but the approach in question (copying all bits from one device to another) does in fact work very nicely, resulting in an EXACT copy of the filesystem in question, unallocated blocks and all.
And there's no requirement that you only copy to a partition of the same size; the transferred filesystem carries its own size indication with it. You can dd a 50Mb filesystem into a 100Mb partition without any trouble whatsoever, other than the resultant filesystem will only describe 50Mb worth of storage, so the remainder of the 100Mb partition will not be "reachable" because the metadata in the copied filesystem will not refer to it. Of course, trying to copy a 100Mb filesystem to a 50Mb partition is only rarely successful... ;-> _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
