On 04/24/2013 01:50 PM, Dsant wrote:
Le 24/04/2013 19:35, Mark Hounschell a écrit :
On 04/24/2013 12:21 PM, Dsant wrote:
* dd is not safe. * For such a size, avoid graphical tools. * So prepare your partition, and use rsync instead : rsync -r -P -t --progress source destination
Could you explain why "dd is not safe"?
mark
Tell me if I am wrong, but dd does not know about partition format consistency , files and folders, or checksums. So if you have the choice between dd and rsync, rsync will complain if CRC is wrong. The best would be that the tool would re-read what have been written, as for CD-RW.
It does not know or care about "about partition format consistency , files and folders, or checksums". It does a sector by sector copy. The only problems I know about are when the 2 disks are not of the same size, and or, when the original disk is a "system" disk and the OS is configured for other than by device name. Even then it's easy to make it right. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org