On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Any hypothesis for this anamoly?
dd is trying to read past end of device and failing? A little OT, but related: tar is far more flexible than dd for backup/restore tasks. You don't require the disks/filesystems to be of exactly same size. Not all 64MB CF cards are exactly same size. I've had issues with HDDs which were not exactly same size. Eg. two 200GB HDDs from different vendors are not exactly same. Or even disks from different batches of the same vendor. This is a pain if you don't plan in advance and use the entire disk while creating RAID arrays. If a disk fails and the replacement is slightly smaller than the originals, you cannot rebuild the array easily. As a safety measure, I never use the entire disk but always round off and leave the last 2-3GB unused while creating RAID sets. - Raja _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
