Second opinion on dd

[s.fox]

Ah, I see what you are saying now. The backup will not be kept on the same box for very long at all so I am not super concerned.

Going for human readible on df shows it will fit. I think I need to look into blocks though, the original output still concerns me.

-sh-3.00$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             227G   83G  133G  39% /

Thanks again for the quick reply

[sudodus]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create an image of a partition using dd. I have read some horror stories on the topic so I would very much value a second opinion.

This is my setup:

-sh-3.00$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5            237152860  86503024 138603096  39% /

Also here, {used: 86503024} is less than {available: 138603096}

[s.fox]

Also here, {used: 86503024} is less than {available: 138603096}

Edit

Got my head around it, misunderstanding the output on the blocks. Thank you

I was reading available as the total! D'oh

[sudodus]

You are welcome Good luck with the tarball, and remember to copy it somewhere else before you need it