On Saturday 29 August 2020 20:39:29 Marco Möller wrote: > On 30.08.20 00:01, Long Wind wrote: > (...) > > > [liveuser@localhost-live <mailto:liveuser@localhost-live> ~]$ sudo > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M status=progress > > (...) > > > 14386462720 bytes (14 GB, 13 GiB) copied, 151.001 s, 95.3 MB/s > > dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device > > 1719+0 records in > > 1718+0 records out > > 14418915840 bytes (14 GB, 13 GiB) copied, 153.319 s, 94.0 MB/s > > Unfortunately, this looks bad for your disk, because you said in > another post that your disk is supposed to provide a storage space of > 320 GB. But in this test only 14 GB could be written to it and then it > is claimed to already have been filled completely. So, in context of > another post of yours, where you say that you could install a system > to a new disk mounted to that same computer, you found the problem: > the supposed to be 320 GB hard disk is either broken in a very strange > way, or it is even a fake disk sold to you as a fraud. > > Wishing you good luck with your new disk and new installation! > Marco.
Uh, I have to ask. Or maybe I came into the middle of what has become a boring thread? dd is a whole device writer, but his command line is to an existing partition? His command line should not have had the 1 according to my thinking. His whole disk might be 320 gigabytes as /dev/sda, but how big is sda1? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>