On 20191008 05:24:34, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:50 AM jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 20191006 01:34:45, Tom H wrote:
On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:05 AM ToddAndMargo via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fedora 30 x64
# dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress
8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s, 218 MB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/dull': No space left on device
2034754+0 records in
2034753+0 records out
8334348288 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.8 GiB) copied, 38.4257 s, 217 MB/s
/dev/null is full ??? Huh ???
1) "/dev/null" not "/dev/dull"
2) "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" not "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null"
Don't you hate it when you do that (item 2), Tom?
{^_-}
LOL. I was thinking of "dd if=/dev/urandom ...". I did this three
weeks ago before backing up some systemd config files that I wanted to
keep :(
But the OP actually wanted "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null". I'm not sure
that "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" does much, but I wouldn't test it on a
partition whose data I'd prefer not to lose :)
One way device. It will not read.
{^_-}
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