Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

[daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>]

On 26 February 2010 10:06, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with
>> firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't
>> know of anyway to resume a dd.
>
> NAME
>       dd - convert and copy a file
>
> SYNOPSIS
>       dd [OPERAND]...
>       dd OPTION
>
> DESCRIPTION
>       Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.
>
>       bs=BYTES
>              read and write BYTES bytes at a time (also see ibs=,obs=)
>
> ...
>       skip=BLOCKS
>              skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Stroller.
>

Hey, shiny!

I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a
bad choice anyway.  But as always, rtfm is good advice!  Thanks (not
sarcastic, except to mock myself).

~daid