Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken really? пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>:
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 > Vladimir Romanov <bluebo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be > > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you > > need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. > > > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > > > > > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my > > > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there > > > anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in > > > Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I > > > bought it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty > > > until 2022 and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the > > > WD web site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get > > > the HD exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any > > > technical wheezes first. > > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I > tried to copy my old HD to the new one. > > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync > dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device > 160+0 records in > 159+0 records out > 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s > > Cheers > Robin > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robin Atwood. > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > >
