Re: How best to copy the entire contents of one partition to…

Dale Farnsworth wrote:

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>
> dd will copy the full partition, block by block, rather than
> copying individual files. It's almost always more appropriate to do
> "cp -a", unless fsck detects significant filesystem structure damage.

Why is that so? (please expound a bit)

>
> -Dale

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-Eric 'shubes'

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