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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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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.
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Regards,

Mick

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