Hi Mike, On Mon, 17.09.2007 at 20:04:24 -0400, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote: > there's nothing especially unique in dd that would "demolish" a computer. there's still the difference in behaviour between dd and cp, the latter causing no such problems. With "demolish" I wanted to say that it really breaks the regular system's operation, and that it required me to reboot the machine, which is a shame, imho. Best, --Toni++