Would this command clone partitions of different sizes? Say /dev/hda1 is
3.2gb to dev/hdb1 which is 4.3 gb?

Art

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 21:51, Michael Chaney wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:32:09PM +0800, Winelfred Pasamba wrote:
> > or just 
> > 
> > cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc
> 
> Because it reads the partition as a stream, byte by byte.  dd is made
> for reading block devices, and setting a large block size can
> dramatically increase performance.
> 
> Michael
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