On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:14:38 +1000
Paul Colquhoun <paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
> > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
>
>
> It would probably just have created a normal file called /dev/sdb
> which would have grown till it filled the empty space on the
> partition.
Yes, that's what it did, though it didn't fill the partition up. Phew,
that's a relief, I was worrying I had overwritten the BIOS or
something!
Thanks
Robin
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