On 3/3/2017 5:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Well, I only wanted to copy the used part of the drive which I try to > keep small so I can still copy the image to an mSD card if I wish. So > I have to supply the amount of the drive to copy. The bs=512 went > fast enough, but then I was only copying 3.2GB. > > thanks for the help. personally, I would use 'dump' for ext? file systems, and xfsdump for XFS. this *just* backs up the inodes and directories, not raw blocks -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz