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Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat



On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:15:54 EDT, "George Georgalis" writes:
>I don't think your system will work though. because you are writing the
>mbr and the partition table with the fs image, you would have to have
>the _exact_ same disk which is less common then you may expect.

If the new disk is _larger or equal_ in size it'll work. Granted, you 
 might lose a bit of space if it's larger.

cheers,
&rw
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