Hi, I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use in another Pundit-R.
1) Can dd be used to copy partitions? (It seems so - just checking) 2) If yes above, then do I need to make identical sized partitions on the target drive before copying, or does dd create the partition? (I hope it doesn't actually) After the clone I'll rename the machine and give it a different IP address but I assume that everything else is 100% identical. The extra drive space will be used for some other purpose and does not have to be part of root. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
