[TriLUG] DD question, not related

[Jason Tower]

however, if you only want to copy a single partition from one disk to
another partion on a second disk, just add the partition number:

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb6

this assumes that the partitions are the same size.  i've copied both fat32
and ext2/3 partitions using this method without incident.

jason

> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 09:02, John F Davis wrote:
>> Hello Roy,
>>
>> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
>>
>>
> Note that this only works if the hard drives are exactly alike and are
> partitioned exactly alike.   Otherwise, you'll end up with
> garbage...
>
> Tanner
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