On Sun, Jul 22, 2007, Mike Holland wrote: > >dd if=/dev/hdd2 of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 > > Is there any advantage here in using dd rather than cp? > I despise dd for its non-unix-standard syntax. Where does it come from? dd works "right" with devices as well as files. And if you're copying hard disks, use a larger block size - like 64k. Adrian