Hard Disk upgrade

Robert Brockway rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Sat Feb 19 19:28:35 UTC 2005


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Hi Jeremy.  dd is a bad idea for a couple of reasons.  It grabs the

I said a couple of reasons didn't I.  The 2nd reason to avoid dd in this 
case is the same reason dd is great for taking copies of corrupt 
filesystems - it captures an exact copy of the files, problems, 
fragmentation and all.

Rob

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