Gene Heskett wrote: > Trying to make a backup image of a 64GB bootable sdcard. Th os say its > 59.b GB when it mounts the original, but pull copy to a file and its > nearly a megabyte bigger than 64gigs. So obviously the file is bigger > than a brand new unformatted disk. >
Hi Gene, you should know each partition has header or meta data, that is not visible after mount. I can't recall where, but there was a document (perhaps on Debian) that explained how the meta data looks like. So basically with each partition operation you add a layer on top of the physical device. For example you create a luks partition, it adds some meta data (perhaps 1-2MB), you add a LVM on top it also adds some meta data, you add the partition, it also adds some meta data. The other concern could be that the 64GB are actually GB by 1000 (sales GB) and not GiB. For example my HDD and SSD report this sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors I bought 500GB which seems to be equivalent of 465.8 GiB Why don't you tar.gz or tar.bz2 your data instead of pulling multiple 0-bytes into backup? regards