[ale] Failing external drive. Planning to DD the failing drive to new external drive. Help please

[Jim Kinney]

Correct. DD will create an exact drive partition copy. If you create a partition of the exact same size, blockwise and blocksize, an md5sum of the two partitions, old and new, will match.

On November 12, 2015 10:58:48 AM EST, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us>
>wrote:
>
>> The dd will migrate the format as well as the data so no need.
>However,
>> you will need to create partitions on the new location that are at
>least
>> the same size as the originals.
>>
>
>So when I create the new partitions on the new drive don't (no need)
>format
>them?
>
>
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