Joost Roeleveld writes:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
>> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?
>
> Did you reboot after the first "dd"?
Probably, undless he is using som external drive.
> Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables?
partprobe /dev/sdb will do this. partprobe is in sys-block/parted.
> Linux caches the partition tables and when overwriting the partition table,
> strange things will happen.
Sounds like the drive is new, and probably not partitioned at all. When
/dev/sdb1 shows up, I's say the partitioning is okay. Is fdisk (I prefer
cfdisk) showing the correct layout?
Wonko
