Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

[Robin Atwood]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500
Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@×××××.com> wrote:

> Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be
> slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you
> need not Fdisk, but GPT programs.
>
> пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org>:
>
> > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my
> > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there
> > anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in
> > Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I
> > bought it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty
> > until 2022 and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the
> > WD web site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get
> > the HD exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any
> > technical wheezes first.

Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
tried to copy my old HD to the new one. 

# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync  
dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device
160+0 records in
159+0 records out
10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s

Cheers
Robin
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