Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

[Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500
Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken
> really?
> 
> пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500
> > Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be
> > > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks
> > > you need not Fdisk, but GPT programs.
> > >
> > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>:
> > >
> > > > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my
> > > > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is
> > > > there anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical
> > > > nature)? I live in Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the
> > > > little shop where I bought it sold me a load of junk. But the
> > > > device is in warranty until 2022 and looks convincing (I
> > > > checked the serial number on the WD web site). Of course I can
> > > > go to the WD service centre and get the HD exchanged but I
> > > > thought I would see if there were any technical wheezes first.
> >
> > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
> > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
> > tried to copy my old HD to the new one.
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync
> > dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device
> > 160+0 records in
> > 159+0 records out
> > 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s

It looks like it. :(

Robin
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
----------------------------------------------------------------------









-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.