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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