From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QLw87-0007GE-D3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 11:38:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F9BA1C168; Mon, 16 May 2011 11:37:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C402E1C168 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 11:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE35F80142 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:37:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:37:01 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device Message-ID: <20110516123701.32f9b515@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <3457739.e4pPBF490q@localhost> <201105160700.42795.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110516114545.4d90dfac@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs22 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/.BDjyfIZ2CyD2IBL1lEHggn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e3fe9585638b671345d465287cfdc253 --Sig_/.BDjyfIZ2CyD2IBL1lEHggn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:16:51 +0100, Mick wrote: > > If you're going to resize/move partitions afterwards, you may as well > > just dd the whole drive in one go. =20 >=20 > But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be > rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong. So if you've got to rearrange the partitions anyway, it is easier to just dd the whole thing in one go and then do the rearranging. Alternatively, set up the new partition table manually and them copy each filesystem. dding the partition table separately from all the partitions makes no sense. --=20 Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them --Sig_/.BDjyfIZ2CyD2IBL1lEHggn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3RDGEACgkQum4al0N1GQM7JgCg0HWFX6I4uhYcZPx/UMrDSF5d IFwAnjwqpVmuRwztEm0vW/ZjQin73nOk =KZRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/.BDjyfIZ2CyD2IBL1lEHggn--