<quote who="Chris Barnes">

> Why wouldn't you use dd?? seemed to work fine for me. no lost files, no
> damage...

dd takes an exact byte-for-byte copy. It's not appropriate for copying files
from one partition to another, particularly when they're not the same size.
It would be better to create the partitions you want on the second disk, and
tar or cpio the files across (retaining permissions, etc).

- Jeff

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