-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-04-24 at 22:04 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote: ...
Potential problem is that dd doesn't check much ahead of transfer, if sdb3 is just a sector shorter then sda3, the result can be error message, or overwritten begin of the next partition. I can't tell which will be the case, although I would expect error message, and partition most probably in tact, ie. usable. The same is problem in case of any typo, it will diligently overwrite target without questions.
The v11.1/home partition is set to be larger than the v10.3/home.
Notice that if you dd a partition to another, and say, source is 1 GiB, and destination is, say, 2 GiB, the end result is a filesystem that "thinks" it has only 1 GiB and wastes the other 1 GiB. If the situation is the reverse, dd will stop at 1 GiB (1), but the resulting filesystem will be broken, because it thinks it has 2 GiB. As you are copying files, you should be better using a file copy tool, like rsync. Or even midnight commander. Or you could use clonezilla. (1) "dd if=/dev/sda3 of=dev/sdb3" knows about the size of destination and does not overwrite a partition. Or rather, the kernel will not allow writing past the end of the destination partition. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknzAqMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XfngCdHI2PSVvYkq7RlB6TXjwraGdz rRsAnR+bL2VBa6nxwdkI5Z9RXYGOEajV =BigT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org