'ello ! I'm going to copy a fresh little debian installation from one 500mb partition to an 2GB partition on another 'puter. So i read the source partition with dd without bs=xxxx.
On the GNU-pages i've read the following: http://org.gnu.de/software/parted/USER ====================== * if the duplicate partition is going to bigger than the original, this can also be done: first, create the new ext2 partition. Then: # dd if=/dev/src-device of=/dev/dst-device bs=1024 count=(OLD SIZE) # parted /dev/hda resize 2 (START) (END) Where: (OLD SIZE) is the size of the original partition in kilobytes. (START) and (END) are the new start and end for the duplicate partition. ======================= Is this bs=1024 essential for not creating a byte-mismatch on my harddisk or is it '1024' because you can make the count=(OLD SIZE) just the kilobyte number from the ls -l command on the image file ??? I would think that the ext2 blocksize if it were 4096 is also 4096 after writing 4 1024-blocks in raw format. Am i right there ? Thanks for some enlightment, Sascha
