On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:22:54PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > What's the big deal about formatting and partitioning? Takes a couple of > minutes with cfdisk and mke2fs. > > On the other hand, I have use dd to clone boot floppies, so........??
My two pennorth: I would only use dd in cases where the source and destination disks are identical. Boot floppies are a good example of this. With non-identical disks, there is always the possibility of problems related to disk geometry differences, which may be no more serious than a bit of wasted space, but may also include booting problems, wasted FAT partitions and similar nasties. cfdisk, mk[foo]fs and cp -a seems easy enough to me, and works... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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