[mdlug] Flakey hard drive

[Drew]

At 11:28 AM 8/19/07, R. Kannan wrote:
>But I cannot use plain old 'cp' to copy partition boot record. Can 
>I? So it looks like I need to use 'dd'.
>
>But will there be an issue with using dd on partitions that are 
>different in size as long as the destination partition is bigger 
>than the source partition? For example, if I use

     dd'ing from smaller to larger *should* work, but the extra space 
will be wasted/unavailable as a
result. Use cp -a, or better yet cp -av so as to monitor the progress.

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- Drew.