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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Several websites suggested specifying a larger block size than the 
> default to speed up copying:
> 
> dd if=/dev/had of=/dev/hdb bs=8k   - copies in 8k blocks.

If you know the sizes of the HD buffers of the two 
drives, set the bs to the size of the smaller buffer.

> Can I copy both Windows and BL3 ext2 files/partitions 
> between drives, if the drives are different sizes?  

Yes.

> If so, what happens to any additional space on the 
> second drive, is it just left as free space?

It's free space.  fdisk will be able to allocate it.

Cheers,
Steven