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On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT |
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> programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I |
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> tried to copy my old HD to the new one. |
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> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync |
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> dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device |
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> 160+0 records in |
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> 159+0 records out |
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> 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s |
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> Cheers |
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> Robin |
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You can use gptfdisk, parted/gparted, etc. |
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To check the size as well as additional information you can use smartmontools |
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and run: |
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smartctl -i /dev/sda |
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It may also be worth checking if later firmware is available to address any |
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issues with it, like reporting the wrong size with some tools. |
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However, the dd command failure sounds suspicious - as I understand it dd |
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should not fail unless the disk has run out of space. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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