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Error on restore - not big enough ...
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Posted by: clearcall

I had my original HDV2 Hughes 40 gb driver fail per Tivo support. Someone PM'ed me an image that was backed from the same type and size.

The drive looked ok under linux, right size .... When I tried to restore to my "bad" drive I get an error saying that the destination drive is not big enough for the restore. i saw a few post like this but I cannot find them now.

It could be the drive is really bad ( I doubt it) or that the image is not really the right one ( they said it is the right one) or I'm doing something wrong.

Anyone had this error before on a restore? I tried many combinations of settings .

Maybe someone can PM me about another image to use.

How do I clean off the drive to start again? Fdisk it in XP then try to restore in Linux???

Posted by: Robert S

What restore command did you use?

You're trying to reimage the original A drive, right?

No need to do anything to the drive before you run mfsrestore.

Posted by: clearcall

I used mfsrestore with many different sets of options, all with the same result. I tried the exact ones from the instructions then improvised for more tries.

Yes - reimage the original drive

I thought maybe I should run something in the drive like fdisk because I cannot get the restore to work. Any thought on my error?

Posted by: Robert S

Remember that -s 127 and -x both expand the image. So probably the only option you want when you're restoring to the original A drive is -i <file>. -p would probably be a good idea too.

If you're rebuilding the whole drive set, then making the 80Gb drive the A drive would probably be a good idea.

Posted by: clearcall

If the image I have came from mfsbackup don't I need to expand it? It is 115mb.

I'll try them all and see what works.

Posted by: Robert S

Yes, but if you're restoring to the original drive then the compressed backup will unpack to exactly fill the drive, that's why any expansion stops the restore.

Posted by: clearcall

Ohhh. I sorta get it.

I'll try again with this in mind. I know I tried withour the -s 127 but I'm not sure I tried without the -x and -s

csk