> 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.
