Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Dale
Wol's lists wrote: > On 05/07/2019 15:30, Robin Atwood wrote: >> 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. > > Recommend any gpt programs? fdisk :-) ? > > Yes I k

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Dale
Wol's lists wrote: > On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote: >> Robin Atwood wrote: >>> On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 >>> Adam Carter wrote: >>> > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > lsblk i

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Wol's lists
On 05/07/2019 15:30, Robin Atwood wrote: 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. Recommend any gpt programs? fdisk :-) ? Yes I know it was said it doesn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Wol's lists
On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. lsblk is nice $ lsblk NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYP

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 > Adam Carter wrote: > >>> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is >>> what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. >>> >> lsblk is nice >> >> $ lsblk >> NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: > > > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > > > > lsblk is nice > > $ lsblk > NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > sda 8:0

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:14:38 +1000 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > > > It would probably just have created a normal file called /dev/sdb > which would have grown till