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Author: Craig White
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Subject: dd for Dummies
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 09:06, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> Howdie. I need to copy the first partition of one disk (lets call it
> hdb1) to the first partition (hdc1) on another. The partitions are
> exactly the same size and I was hopping that one of you might check my
> command line instructions before I blew anything up. Yes, dd scares the
> heck out of me because of it's power...
>
> $dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hdc1
>
> Do I need any options?

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not certain that it's necessary but I would tend to put a bs=512 at the
end of that.

Craig