On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Mark Kane <m...@mkproductions.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011, at 22:54:48 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: [...] > When using either of the above commands, there is no difference > outputted from diff between the data written by Lenny (where it works) > and Squeeze (where it doesn't). > > That got me to think that maybe it's not at the very beginning/end, so > I tried this: > > # dd if=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=30720 | hexdump -x > outfile > > In that case, there is a difference between Lenny and Squeeze and I > have attached the diff. > > As another test, I tried writing the image to sdb which is a blank > disk. If I do this: > > # dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=30720 | hexdump -x > outfile > > ...there is no difference between the data written from Lenny and > Squeeze as there was above when it was written to sda (which contains > the live running file system).
what do u mean by "live running file system"? a mounted file system? > So I guess that narrows it down a bit. The problem in Etch and > Squeeze only happens when overwriting the device with the live > file system. When writing to a separate disk everything works as > expected. Tao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=nzzwvtqh8cfflfnqf46cemad...@mail.gmail.com
