Re: DD not working--SUCCESS!

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:

   Here is my final paper on using dd. Feel free to shoot at it.

8. Think of how dd works this way, dd see's the source partition as
just a pile of bytes.

what is a "pile" of bytes?

9. The default number of bytes per Block is defaulted to 150.

only in your imagination, karl.

The info DD says
this:
`bs=BYTES'
    Set both input and output block sizes to BYTES.  This makes `dd'
    read and write BYTES per block, overriding any `ibs' and `obs'
    settings.
So if in a hurry you can use bs=15000 which will be a good thing because the
IDE hard drive controllers are quite slow. So rather than sending just 150
bytes per change, you send 15,000. A transfer will look like:

   # dd bs=15000 if=/dev/sda6 of=/dev/sdb5

I have not tried this. No reason to think it will not work.

karl, why in god's name are you writing documentation ostensibly to
help others do things that you haven't even verified yourself?
please, karl, do everyone a favour, and stop trying to do them any
more favours.  all you're going to do is lead someone into doing
something disastrously disastrous.

and please, karl, for the last time, get a blog where you can publish
all this incorrect and potentially damaging guidance.  the amount of
everyone's time you've wasted in "finally" producing documentation
that is still incorrect is really quite breathtaking.

rday
Thanks for your help rday.


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