There could be something amiss in the dd when feeding into a pipe
( 2G limit should not matter, but...)
Try following:
dd if=/dev/sdX | cat > /dev/null
Hmm.. And also:
dd if=/dev/sdX | rsh other-host dd of=/dev/null
> Maybe I can fool ftp with symlinks tomorrow into doing the copy and see
> if that works. Just for fun I tried 'cat' as well -- same error -- out of
> space on target.
'cat' local or remote ?
> It transfers a lot of data -- right around 2G the first time I tried it, so
> it looked awfully suspicious.
Yes, suspicuous about something in the rsh barfing.
> Linda
/Matti Aarnio
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