From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NM2Vq-0000tz-00 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:50:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C6B0E07EB; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397C2E07EB for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi1 with SMTP id 1so2834054pwi.26 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:50:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KPPnfmFj5A5gJ0eD5p1jc9fTl8sMFJKwGFbBjXpfSk0=; b=W9ACfeOE0nePe++YRQiCWJwmrL7hSmEqSlnRhyqi/JV3uKbX/aKdyyL7IVkxv/Xtfn dSK5tYcZ2kt4YTQI0bJE0Tu2ywCUBqjIIKnIk4daXhbm4yjs2qIv81D2dLwihXTJUutg lkxIdHkPpYC36Ug7xuTmtDDRwUv8a4Aq4dOCU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fyazNYCGF9u/U+/ycz9+gL2Z7Wh8tzoDjsDEhapRdytRwYUH4UT2h3HrboeHuJwQWz d46NNovfA39/NmY9W6Dq7dbVdWzuXw3Sl7RfgPHgSjUd9q10kFXckRS/68bEH2lVFWPS PPUt0MPf6jk5FuajBV4Hr2uByKYlB703Etzuo= 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.107.19 with SMTP id j19mr3640099rvm.232.1261241415581; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:50:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091219105915.1c9bc778@digimed.co.uk> References: <49bf44f10912161049v3768a3f8m60dddbae4b8777b@mail.gmail.com> <15719e8b0912161154o6f634c9bk6b1f9e3f9204ac20@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10912180908x6fa39920k7048c718a16a018b@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10912181505h7993994h4bf342380654dbf6@mail.gmail.com> <4B2C3187.7060701@cox.net> <49bf44f10912181758q15cb100k87bb42634d799cee@mail.gmail.com> <20091219105915.1c9bc778@digimed.co.uk> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:50:15 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10912190850x91498c0r397e6034d0454f9e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7bfaa422-b882-4a92-8610-8f7b259a9ea0 X-Archives-Hash: 87403246b65424ecafc2558ce13ec67a >> I checked on it after a few hours and it said "No space left on >> device" and the process had exited. =A0I rebooted the system without the >> key inserted and unfortunately it came back up to the normal HD so >> nothing has been wiped. =A0Any idea what I did wrong? > > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong device. Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small Linux on the stick. For some reason the laptop tell me "missing operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. I need to test it on other systems. > Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=3D4096 speeds it up quite > significantly. Thanks, will do: dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/sda bs=3D4096 - Grant