On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; > > On the old 66GB disk; > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz > > Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk; > dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 > # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M > dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device > 0+306 records in > 0+305 records out > 10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 206848 117207039 58500096 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?
Did you reboot after the first "dd"? Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables? Linux caches the partition tables and when overwriting the partition table, strange things will happen. -- Joost
