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A dump is a dump: if you've got space, then the dump should contain all your data. Otherwise, you should get an error. Whether or not it happens to be a "slave drive" is totally irrelevant!
I'm not sure where you're getting the "26GB" and "11GB" numbers from ...
... but "database space used" does NOT necessarily equal "data currently stored in database".
Think of some other way to validate that the dump contains "all your data". I suspect you'll find you're already successful - you just didn't realize it ;-)
Does "select count(*) from <<some table>>" show the same row count? Can you think of anything else to verify whether or not any actual "data" is missing?
Can you give me the stats on your file system? type, inode, blocks, etc? It sounds like you might have hit your file systems limit. A good example is ext2, with a block size of 1k your max single file size is around 16gb.
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