On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:31, Peter Chubb wrote: > >>>>> "Howard" == Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Howard> I'm trying to ghost one disk to another. They are identical > Howard> physical specs, and I am attempting: > > Howard> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=4096 > > Howard> It transfers about 593 records and then complains that there > Howard> is insufficient space on the device. > > Are you sure that /dev/hdc is actually a block device? I've done > things like this and found I was actually writing to a plain file in > /dev/ > > Do > ls -l /dev/hdc > cat /proc/partitions > to make sure that the disc is really there.
I think it's there because, before I started, I tried: fdisk /dev/hdc and it came back that it couldn't read the device. Now when I do fdisk /dev/hdc it comes back with a correct looking partition table that matches the master. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
