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. Have you considered looking at Clonezilla? It does a nice job of imaging a disk and only saves the used part. It creates an image which can be restored and is bootable. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos