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Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken 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 you |
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> > 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 there |
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> > > anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in |
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> > > Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I |
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> > > bought it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty |
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> > > until 2022 and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the |
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> > > WD web site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get |
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> > > the HD exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any |
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> > > 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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> Cheers |
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> Robin |
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