On Tuesday 23 July 2002 20.23, Oliver Ob wrote:
I have no room for the unzipped image. That's why I instinctively tried standard cat.
I'm not sure I understand this. cat will just take the input file and copy it to stdout. Since the file was zipped you have to unzip it before you can write it to the partition. zcat will only unzip to stdout, it won't write any files, so you can use it even if you're low on disk space.
Now, having tried that and verified that both the source and the new target partiotion have EXACTLY the same size there has occured this:
xxx records in xxx records out
but! the "in" amount of blocks is ONE higher that the written!
You've mounted the new partition you created and verified that it's exactly the same as the original?
how come?
I'm not completely sure. dd should write out everything it receives as input. Perhaps the target partition was one block smaller than the original?! Have you checked the sizes of the partitions with the size values in bytes? Have you fscked the new partition to make sure there aren't any errors? //Anders