[clug] dd

[Hal Ashburner]

On 12/04/10 10:31, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> "Owen"<rcook at pcug.org.au>  writes:
>
>    
>>> Note to self/all: be sure of which partition you're dd'ing to, before you
>>> do it. Also be aware partition names can change between different installs
>>> of Debian.
>>>        
> ...er, they generally don't.  Much as I love a good "blame the tools" story,
> either you changed the partition "names", or you used an automatic tool to
> create them that isn't producing the same output every time.
>    

I've seen this happen too. In fact it's why my fstab now identifies 
partitions by UUID rather than device file. The symptom is /dev/sda1 
this boot can be /dev/sdb1 next. Really quite common for something that 
generally doesn't happen, the heads up & reminder is definitely 
worthwhile, for mine.