Re: [SLUG] Ghosting a disk

[Peter Chubb <peterc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Howard> I'm trying to ghost one disk to another.  They are identical
Howard> physical specs, and I am attempting:

Howard> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=4096

Howard> It transfers about 593 records and then complains that there
Howard> is insufficient space on the device.

Are you sure that /dev/hdc is actually a block device?  I've done
things like this and found I was actually writing to a plain file in
/dev/

Do 
   ls -l /dev/hdc
   cat /proc/partitions
to make sure that the disc is really there.