[TriLUG] Re: DD question, not related

[Tanner Lovelace]

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
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