<html><head></head><body>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 12, 2015 10:58:48 AM EST, H P Ladds <householdwords@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br /><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkinney@jimkinney.us" target="_blank">jkinney@jimkinney.us</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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.<br /></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>So when I create the new partitions on the new drive don't (no need) format them? <br /></div></div></div></div>
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