> > My expectation was that if I dd an img file to /dev/sdc (a USB stick) that > it would end up with the partitioning, MBR and file structure as defined in > the img file ?
>From my little bit of experience with dd I would be in agreement with you. When I accidentally re-formatted my wife's laptop I initially did a dd command copying sda2 because that was the main partition with the data I wanted. When I re-created the image elsewhere it was important that I had created the partition as the correct size already. Second time round I did an image using sda as the source instead of specifying a particular partition and when I re-created it on another machine I didn't need to bother with setting up the partitions - it just bulldozed everything and didn't care what was already there. Stewart
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