Re: swapping master & slave HDs: what to change? (solved - pls comment!)

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Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote in message news:<2KShk-63F-21@gated-at.bofh.it>...
> if of is the new target disk, it will wipe out your partition table of
> your new disk ( bs=446 or bs=448 is better ) if you want to preserve
> the partitions on the target disk

I'd never advocate if = source disk, of = destination disk with
bs=512!  That was in the BACKUP section, so that one could return to
the status quo ante in case of shit | fan.

Interesting point: what's in bytes 447 and 448?

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