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

[Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>]

On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:34:18 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Robin  
> 
> You can use gptfdisk, parted/gparted, etc.
> 
> To check the size as well as additional information you can use
> smartmontools and run:
> 
> smartctl -i /dev/sda
> 
> It may also be worth checking if later firmware is available to
> address any issues with it, like reporting the wrong size with some
> tools.
> 
> However, the dd command failure sounds suspicious - as I understand
> it dd should not fail unless the disk has run out of space.

OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what
I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.

Thanks
Robin
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