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