I keep getting disk space errors when using dd to write to raw disk on SD cards in an external, USB connected SD card reader.
➜ ~ gzip -cd < image.dd.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/rsda
dd: writing to '/dev/rsda': No space left on device
2598977+0 records in
2598976+0 records out
1330675712 bytes (1,3 GB, 1,2 GiB) copied, 7,08613 s, 188 MB/s
However, /dev/sda
works and I am able to copy a gzip image to my laptops internal sd card reader.
gzip -cd < image.dd.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/rmmcblk
I used fdisk
and lsblk
to examine the setup more closely:
➜ ~ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 14,9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x4f669081
➜ ~ sudo fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 14,9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
➜ ~ lsblk
sda 8:0 1 14,9G 0 disk
mmcblk0 179:0 0 14,9G 0 disk
I noticed the subtle difference that the disk name for my internal drive is mmcklk0
, but I seem to need to drop the 0 when writing to the raw disk. I'd be surprised if that were an issue.
I also explored this question - "dd command indicates not enough disk space - trying to format sd card for raspberry pi" - but nothing helped.
Any help would be appreciated!
Background: I'm cloning 200+ 16GB SD cards. Writing to raw takes 55s, and 20+ minutes without raw. Ideally, I would like to buy multiple SD card readers and clone ten at a time.