[Gllug] copying filesystems using 'dd'

[t.clarke]

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Message from:-
Tim Clarke  (tim at seacon.co.uk)
Seacon Holdings plc Group, London, U.K.
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Robin Smith wrote (paraphrased):
'raw is raw - so dd should work on any filesystem' ....

The only reason I asked was that I just had a horrible 'what if' thought:-

SCO filesystems clearly use internal pointers to disc blocks relative to the
file-system-start, so copying the filesystem to another physical location
on the same/another disc does not break the pointer structure,  but if for
some reason Linux filesystems should do something different, then copying
to another physical location might not work ???

I just wondered if anyone had done this using Linux and could verfiy that dd'ing
does work, without me having to test it !

Tim

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