DD not working

[Karl Larsen]

Jacques B. wrote:
>>     Come on for God's sake! I am way past this stage already. I am
>> taking this F7 on a 20 GB partition and putting it on a 30 GB partition.
>>     
>
> That was not obvious in the thread(s) that you started on this issue.
> Am I the only one that missed the change of trying to copy the first
> 10 gig of a 30 gig onto a new 10 gig partition?
>
>   
>>     Again for God's sake! The F7 I am using now is fully updated and
>> working fine. I want to put the whole thing on a new HARD DRIVE!!!!!
>>     
>
> Again, that was not the thread you started on this.  You wanted to
> copy 10 of a 30 gig partition from /dev/sda6 to a 10 gig partition on
> /dev/sdb5.
>
> >From your thread you started about 13 hours ago titled dd and cp -a:
> "> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>>    I have this computer on /dev/sda and the new hard drive is
>>> /dev/sdb. This F7 is all in /dev/sda6 and I want to copy /dev/sda6 to
>>> /dev/sdb5. I tried dd but it failed I think because /dev/sdb5 is
>>> smaller 10 GB than  /dev/sda6 which is 30 GB. It ended with an error
>>> message."
>>>       
>
>
>   
>>     Now with your obvious wisdom tell me if the ACTUAL thing I am trying
>> to do will work. EVER.
>>
>>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>     
>
> What are you ACTUALLY trying to do?  Are you now trying to copy an
> entire physical drive to a new physical drive?  What is the size of
> the source drive?  The size of the destination drive?
>
> Start a thread and stick to it.  And if you decide to abandon a
> particular approach and undertake a different one, please be so kind
> as to post this fact so people can re-align their advice accordingly.
>
> You have the knack to bit the hand that feeds you...  I'm a patient
> and tolerant individual and strive to maintain respect in my postings.
>  I ask no less from others.
>
> Jacques B.
>
>   
    Here is what I did this time. /dev/sda6 which is this computer has 
5098 cylinders of space (the hard drives are identical) and the other 
has 5100 cylinders. So it is just a bit larger than the source 
partition. This will finish in good time and then I will use fsck to see 
if the transfered file system is good. Last time I mounted the new 
partition to this computer and it looked so good I was sure it was 
perfect. Alas the LABEL problems and many others kept me busy doing 
stupid things.

    This time I know much more 8-)



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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