Re: Partition duplication

[Brian Rogers]

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Harold Sinclair wrote:

> Glynn, you said
> 
> If you use dd, ensure that the source partition is mounted
> read-only, and that the target partition is unmounted.
> 
> Why? Can you explain.

I think that the source partition should only be mounted read-only so that
there will be no changes to the filesystem during the copy.  Changes could
leave the filesystem in an inconsistent state.

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