Then that's what I needed. I need to copy an entire disk to disk. Thanks guys.
-----Original Message----- From: Tanner Lovelace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Re: DD question, not related On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:30, James Manning wrote: > I haven't done this in awhile, but i don't understand the "are partitioned > exactly alike" - since the dd copies the partition table (residing in > the first sector) as well, what would it matter what the dest partition > table was like before the dd? > > geometry's a potential issue, but a few years back I did it with diff geom > drives and it worked fine (block size of 1 sector may have helped that) You're right. It does copy the partition table too. I was thinking about copying a single partition. Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Have we sent the "Don't shoot, we're pathetic" transmission yet? Commander John Crichton (Farscape) _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
