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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Can BL copy Win98?
  • Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:43:26 +1300

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




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