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On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500 |
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Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken |
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> really? |
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> пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org>: |
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> > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 |
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> > Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be |
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> > > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks |
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> > > you need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. |
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> > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org>: |
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> > > > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my |
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> > > > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is |
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> > > > there anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical |
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> > > > nature)? I live in Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the |
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> > > > little shop where I bought it sold me a load of junk. But the |
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> > > > device is in warranty until 2022 and looks convincing (I |
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> > > > checked the serial number on the WD web site). Of course I can |
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> > > > go to the WD service centre and get the HD exchanged but I |
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> > > > thought I would see if there were any technical wheezes first. |
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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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It looks like it. :( |
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Robin |
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Robin Atwood. |
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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