Re: [gentoo-user] dd questions

2007-12-16 Thread maxim wexler
This is what happens when you hit TAB twice when running bash. So either you hit TAB or a couple TAB characters \t\t were in the input stream Not TAB, but ESC, which I hit multi times to monitor progress whenever the console went to sleep. Could that have done it? mw

[gentoo-user] dd questions

2007-12-15 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I moved a partition(about 60G) from one drive to another, slightly larger, using: dd if=/dev/hdc4 of=/dev/hdc6 bs=32k When the operation completed this appeared: 904017 +1 records in 1904017 record out numbers which are precisely 999,999 apart. What is that all about? Followed by

Re: [gentoo-user] dd questions

2007-12-15 Thread Statux
[snip] Followed by this: display all 902 possibilities (y or n) y and the screen filled up with an alphabetical list of executable programs like ls, something-something.sh etc. Which is strange because it was /home and contained no files like that. This is what happens when you