Re: [SLUG] Ghosting a disk

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:31, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

I think it's there because, before I started, I tried:
fdisk /dev/hdc
and it came back that it couldn't read the device.  Now when I do fdisk
/dev/hdc it comes back with a correct looking partition table that
matches the master.
-- 
Howard.
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