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?