On 09/26/2018 07:51 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > the second is an > external 2 Tbyte USB harddrive with a XFS file system that is a dd copy > of a partition from another SL 7 machine (that is having difficulties -- > the partition is /home and the data is important). Wouldn't a dd copy wipe out any partition table or filesystem on the target device?