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On Saturday 30 July 2011 00:06:57 Dale wrote: |
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> I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it |
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> has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ |
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I'm in a similar process. I have an external disk which I use to back my |
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boxes up. I need a bootable vfat partition for the Win-XP part of my laptop, |
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but what I'd set up was far too small. So I was faced with either losing all |
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my Linux backups, or shrinking the ext4 partition to make more space for |
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vfat. |
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Gparted is currently moving all the ext4 data up the disk. The partition is |
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now 731 GB with 369 GB occupied. I started it nearly 18 hours ago and it |
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still says it has 5h 40m to go. It may want to do some other housekeeping |
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after the copy too. |
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It says it's copying 731 GB, but that must be an error, since nowhere on the |
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disk (and nothing on the network, come to that) is large enough to receive |
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that much data. |
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One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your |
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power incident doesn't happen to me too. :-) |
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Rgds |
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Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |
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