[ltp] Copying Files

[Eben King]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Joachim Schrod wrote:

> >>>>> "S" == SOTL  <sotl155360@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> S> I want to copy all files in a partition to another partition.
> 
> If AND ONLY IF your two partitions are of *exactly* the same size, you
> can use
> 
>     dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/hda6 bs=1M
> 
> (The bs makes dd run faster.)

By default it uses a blocksize of what, 1 byte?

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