Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 18:09, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 10:37 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 13/11/13 01:40, Andre Majorel wrote: > [...] >>> Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last >>> time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its >>> current stats on stderr

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 10:37 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/11/13 01:40, Andre Majorel wrote: [...] > > Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last > > time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its > > current stats on stderr. So you can use ps to find out the

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/13 01:40, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2013-11-11 15:06 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> I do not remember having seen so much unused space on first disk. >> Could dd have written stuff there, when I only asked it to read >> there? > > dd writing to the argument of if= would

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Russell Powers
> On November 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM Andre Majorel wrote: > > Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last > time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its > current stats on stderr. So you can use ps to find out the PID > of your dd(1) process then kill -USR1 from ti

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2013-11-11 15:06 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I do not remember having seen so much unused space on first disk. > Could dd have written stuff there, when I only asked it to read > there? dd writing to the argument of if= would be a bug. A major one. > 2: the 2 disks are USB d

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:06:44PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. > > Few days ago, I tried to clone a damaged[1] disk to another one, of > the same size, with dd. > I had to interrupt the copy after more than 24 hours, because it was > obviously too long[2]. Have you looked

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-11 Thread Shane Johnson
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:06 AM, wrote: > Hello. > > Few days ago, I tried to clone a damaged[1] disk to another one, of the > same size, with dd. > I had to interrupt the copy after more than 24 hours, because it was > obviously too long[2]. > > Now, I am trying to look anew how to do the copy,

disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-11 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. Few days ago, I tried to clone a damaged[1] disk to another one, of the same size, with dd. I had to interrupt the copy after more than 24 hours, because it was obviously too long[2]. Now, I am trying to look anew how to do the copy, and looking at the disks with gparted, I have those