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Re: LABEL's



Karl Larsen wrote:

> I think dd will work fine IFF the partition your sending data to is larger than the one
> it is coming from, and you do NOT put a file system in the destination
> partition.

I think you're misunderstanding.  If you use dd to copy, the filesystem
will be copied too.  You /must/ not put a filesystem on the larger
partition before dding over.  If necessary, zero it out first.

Matt Flaschen


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