[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
www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
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