From: Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:28:11 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190706212811.34d091ad@binro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3013217.1lb7H29u0p@bluering>
On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:14:38 +1000
Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> It would probably just have created a normal file called /dev/sdb
> which would have grown till it filled the empty space on the
> partition.
Yes, that's what it did, though it didn't fill the partition up. Phew,
that's a relief, I was worrying I had overwritten the BIOS or
something!
Thanks
Robin
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-05 14:12 [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB Robin Atwood
2019-07-05 14:14 ` Vladimir Romanov
2019-07-05 14:30 ` Robin Atwood
2019-07-05 14:31 ` Vladimir Romanov
2019-07-05 14:36 ` Robin Atwood
2019-07-05 14:40 ` Vladimir Romanov
2019-07-05 15:42 ` Grant Taylor
2019-07-05 14:34 ` Mick
2019-07-05 14:44 ` Robin Atwood
2019-07-05 14:47 ` Mick
2019-07-05 15:33 ` Robin Atwood
2019-07-05 23:11 ` Adam Carter
2019-07-06 14:30 ` Robin Atwood
2019-07-06 14:56 ` Dale
2019-07-06 22:19 ` Wol's lists
2019-07-07 1:12 ` Dale
2019-07-07 12:19 ` Wols Lists
2019-07-07 12:38 ` Dale
2019-07-09 1:34 ` Adam Carter
2019-07-09 21:45 ` Wols Lists
2019-07-06 1:14 ` Paul Colquhoun
2019-07-06 14:28 ` Robin Atwood [this message]
2019-07-06 22:23 ` Wol's lists
2019-07-07 1:15 ` Dale
2019-07-09 22:06 ` Mike Gilbert
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