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Joost Roeleveld writes: |
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> On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: |
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>> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB? |
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> Did you reboot after the first "dd"? |
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Probably, undless he is using som external drive. |
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> Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables? |
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partprobe /dev/sdb will do this. partprobe is in sys-block/parted. |
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> Linux caches the partition tables and when overwriting the partition table, |
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> strange things will happen. |
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Sounds like the drive is new, and probably not partitioned at all. When |
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/dev/sdb1 shows up, I's say the partitioning is okay. Is fdisk (I prefer |
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cfdisk) showing the correct layout? |
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Wonko |
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