From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nkz0H-0001xz-LC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:09:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42771E0C2D for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3576BE08A0 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi2 with SMTP id 2so3342022pwi.40 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:59:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=k+3OHBs1Vg7xih7Ld202xmattDwYdmUSayULnesQmmw=; b=GV+z7NVy+NqLL47Q6qvoPYBs1I8AxQXXpWU3G6kJZU4yqXZBQtC3h9vG42sG4tGzkv armKJS5GrC7KAyu4/Tx2YqL2XGvK6G+7nj/2VHb43KtAyJ3OAiU3aaCVU0iIm2DEwI0X ToMOQuvIM9l6zh7HMpaBzxLGI/ZbgtuSeRLik= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TRg+4XTyW+r5f/Tr9WxBWsZWSgUC6f+YT+41LLUp8tThY8FrRIphC7Agpz+iPlrPgF Oy8utYvdl3s7P7PVs0p2Kz9CoPCTlvqyLS2AVaQLOfMPFzW2YaDAm5mG+vT8CehqZw7Y J7AzD+Ak2M5uwgN+wez5dna+F9qIYZERFlJh8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.62.12 with SMTP id k12mr164781wfa.49.1267185581648; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:59:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <9ACEF0FC-6953-460B-924F-D6BC49BDE773@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <87hbpdotge.fsf@newsguy.com> <3ac129341002212349j4eef1229p3bc266d29ef054ca@mail.gmail.com> <3ac129341002250959h2cb79081v74826f332ebae2d1@mail.gmail.com> <9ACEF0FC-6953-460B-924F-D6BC49BDE773@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:59:41 +0900 Message-ID: <3ac129341002260359h2066deeby135975b1d1b19368@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk From: daid kahl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8a4e5bc8-d4a5-4934-b747-f2075a80a452 X-Archives-Hash: fec7af2e4770a594991fc5057f7afe0c On 26 February 2010 10:06, Stroller 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 > =A0 =A0 =A0 dd - convert and copy a file > > SYNOPSIS > =A0 =A0 =A0 dd [OPERAND]... > =A0 =A0 =A0 dd OPTION > > DESCRIPTION > =A0 =A0 =A0 Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the opera= nds. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 bs=3DBYTES > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0read and write BYTES bytes at a time (also see= ibs=3D,obs=3D) > > ... > =A0 =A0 =A0 skip=3DBLOCKS > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0skip 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