From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BCF15138334 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2019 14:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FA86E0845; Sat, 6 Jul 2019 14:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cwt-smtp-05.totbb.com (cwt-smtp-05.totbb.com [118.175.47.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0202E083D for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2019 14:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from opal.binro.org (unknown [125.24.170.87]) by cwt-smtp-11.totbb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A775B271 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:28:13 +0700 (ICT) Received: from localhost (topaz2.binro.org [192.168.100.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by opal.binro.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id x66ESBoU021293 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:28:12 +0700 Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:28:11 +0700 From: Robin Atwood To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB Message-ID: <20190706212811.34d091ad@binro.org> In-Reply-To: <3013217.1lb7H29u0p@bluering> References: <20190705211207.7766dd87@binro.org> <3852212.NqFQpVu6ds@localhost> <20190705214418.7cabedb2@binro.org> <3013217.1lb7H29u0p@bluering> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TOTBB-NET-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TOTBB-NET-MailScanner-ID: 70A775B271.A852C X-TOTBB-NET-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TOTBB-NET-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-TOTBB-NET-MailScanner-From: robin@binro.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 5451ec05-2252-46ad-9152-966b4ccbe533 X-Archives-Hash: 8192b7351981273145e1d0466ab27133 On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:14:38 +1000 Paul Colquhoun 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.