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. 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. Thierry ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx