Unix disk copy using dd ?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu May 3 14:32:30 CDT 2007


On May 3, 2007, at 1:46 PM, David Comley wrote:
> dd also seems to have some implementation-specifics
> baked into it. On Solaris I was completely unable to
> transfer a raw VMS disk image from one drive to
> another (identical) one using dd; however the same
> transfer worked correctly under Linux.

   This is not dd, but the disk device drivers underlying OS.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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