On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:

> so if I
> $dd if=big of=small
> then will dd just ignore the any data past the size of the smaller of
> the 2 drives?

It will output some error messages and the number of complete and
partial blocks.

Have a look at the dd manpage and the dd info document and read about
"notrunc".

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/

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