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How to determine size requirement for destination media

Asked by Kevin Cole

I have a bootable DVD (Edubuntu 9.10). "df -h" shows 3.4 GB in use. So, I purchased a 4.0 GB USB stick. "df -h" shows 3.8 GB available. However, usb-creator says there is not enough space on the destination medium. How can I determine ahead of time the space requirements for copying? Is there an alternative way to make the copy that will fit it into the alloted space?

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Kevin Cole (kjcole) said : 		#1

Oops. My misunderstanding. It seemed logical to copy the source device (/dev/sr0) to the destination device (/dev/sdb). I did not scroll down far enough in the list of destination devices to note that the first and only partition on the destination device (/dev/sdb1) did not complain about the lack of space. (It begs the question of why /dev/sdb was listed as a choice, though... Or perhaps I'm still misunderstanding.)