[wellylug] DD no go

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Fri Apr 4 19:04:03 NZDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 18:56 +1300, David Chord wrote:
> Hi all. 
>  q
> 
> Ok, so want to back up but.. 
> 223648791
> In the same place every time, dd quits. 
> 
> Command line is dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb 
> 
> Error is "dd: writing to `/dev/sdb' : Input/output error
> 8395977+0 records in
> 8395976+0 records out
> 4298739712 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 701.827s, 6.1 MB/s
> 
> After the 2nd time I formatted sdb to fat32 (was a blank disk on the first 
> run), no luck. 
> 
> Any advice?

That's normal - when dd runs out of disk to copy to.

-- 
Jethro Carr

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