said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users: | Although I can't figure out why dd should have "wiped" a partition (did | you use any complicated dd command?), for backups and copies I rely on | Image for Linux.
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4M status=progress
(They were of course unmounted, and the machine was running on sda)
I cannot understand at all why it nuked the ~/home partition on the source drive. Additionally, it finished normally and reported no errors. I am at a loss to explain it, nor can I find and similar reports. The target drive not working out, perhaps. But ruining the source drive seems almost impossible. But there I am.
| Yes, you pay for it, and some have pretended that you where just paying | for dd, but as far as I am concerned it never failed me.
Nor me before, either. And I've used it to copy very big drives full of important data. This time was not a critical loss. The other times it would have been. In that sense, I'm very lucky.