[PLUG] Attempted dd copy, ran into problems...

Rogan Creswick creswick at cs.orst.edu
Thu Nov 13 12:47:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:51:06AM -0800, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> I tried dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf bs=512k which seemed to work except

This howto (the hard disk upgrade howto) gives a more reliable, and
more general method.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/

Sections 5-8 are probably of most interest.

-Rogan


> I got a out of space or something error on the target and the Windows
> system that's supposed to be on there gave an error about the drive 
> not being LBA formatted or something about problems with the end of
> the partition.  One drive appears to 41 gigs and the other 39.  The
> data doesn't come anywhere near to filling up the source.  Maybe
> I should /dev/zero the target, partition it manually as FAT32, then
> do the same dd command with a count=something argument.
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