On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:35:42 -0700, Jason Van Cleve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if I have this right, dd will copy any kind of partition, or an > entire drive, provided the destination is the same size as the source > (or larger, if I'm willing to sacrifice the extra space). This implies > I could just size my partitions as before, use dd for all of them, then > create a new ten-gig' partition for whatever. How'm I doing so far? > That should work. dd will make an exact bit for bit copy; so it copies everything including partition tables and lowlevel filesystem formatting. dd takes offset, blocksize and numblocks parameters so it would theoretically be possible to do things like copy everything from a smaller device into a larger partition; but you would need to know a lot of detail about how that specific filesystem worked, you would need to emulate the filesystem code using a shell script, and since you already have access to the C version... -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
