On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:08:32PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Out of curiocity, why libparted is needed to copy a partition > into some other place? How about > > dd if=/dev/source-partition of=/dev/dest-partition > > ? > > (Well, with proper options, maybe with iflag=direct etc, but that's > details).
I suspect parted has filesystem knowledge and can copy between partitions of different sizes as long as the data fits. dd doesn't know anything. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140213202502.gh17...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
