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Old 02-18-2010
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Originally Posted by adelsin
Yes. The source drive is indeed mounted and in use. As it was the acting operating system.
Running dd from a device containing a mounted filesystem is absolutely unreliable, i.e. will likely lead to a corrupted destination filesystem.
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Old 02-18-2010
Yup yup
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Originally Posted by adelsin Image
Yes. The source drive is indeed mounted and in use. As it was the acting operating system.

Running dd from a device containing a mounted filesystem is absolutely unreliable, i.e. will likely lead to a corrupted destination filesystem.
I know and agree. It was a proof of concept.
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