On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:14 PM, jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But Rick, the OP was trying to dd into /dev/sda
How can it be that the system boots off of some disk that is not /dev/sda,
and /dev/sda is empty? and is a usb flash???
Also, why would the op get a message to the effect "disk is full"
when it is a 32GB flash?
My suspicion is that it is not a USB disk, and that it is a very old and small IDE disk.
-JD
If you look at my reply, he dd'd into a partition which I suspect was only 524Mb. Odds are, as you mentioned, the system is probably hosed if in fact the it was a system drive. An IDE would show as a "hd" [a,b,c,d]; hence the "ls" command to find the USB. If in fact he does have an IDE drive and it shows as "hd*" then it would explain the how the USB would be "sda" Alternatively he could use:
df -h
but I felt the output would have been too confusing until the OP could better understand.
Kevin, thanks for the clarification, was just keeping it simple.
-- Fred
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