[OLUG] dd

[Adam Lassek]

Try unmounting it first, I think that may cause problems.

mesc wrote:
> 
> I did that and it says theres 1.6 GB available.I'm pulling my hair out:) I
> don't know if it makes a difference or not but I'm using dd to tranfer this
> dir to a file while my window spartition (/dev/hda1) is mounted.
> 
>                     Gary Martin.
> 
> Adam Lassek wrote:
> 
> > Well, run df on the partition that is mounted at /usr, first of all.
> > (for instance, df /dev/hda2 if hda2 is the /usr partition). That'll tell
> > you how much free space there is for sure.
> >
> > mesc wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what's wrong,my windows partition (hda1) is only 672 mb and
> > > my /usr partition (where I'm trying to dd to) is 1.7 gb yet when I dd
> > > if=/dev/hda1 of=/usr/bin/win_install it runs for a few minutes then
> > > tells me theres no space left on the device.What might I be doing wrong?
> > >
> > >             Thank you,Gary Martin.
> > >
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