DD not working

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> mount: /dev/sdb5 already mounted or /mnt busy
> 
> The last 2 lines say that /dev/sdb5 is mounted to this Old Hard Drive 
> somehow. I did not do this. /etc/fsack did not do this. So not sure what 

Yes you did. See your opening mail of the thread titled 'dd and cp -a' 
in which you say that you mounted it to /mnt, but didn't mention how. I 
am assuming you made it permanent by adding it to fstab. And if you did 
this, dd'ing the partition would take this setting over to the new drive.

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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