On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: > Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to filesystem metadata. This was ext2. Has this not been a problem for you? -- monique