On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 3:28 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/8/19 8:24 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> 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:) > > I've shown in another follow up in the thread that it does nothing. Thanks. I'd missed your demonstration (for future reference): [egreshko@meimei ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdg status=progress 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 0.000189575 s, 0.0 kB/s [egreshko@meimei ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdg1 /mnt [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls /mnt lost+found x Somewhat counter-intuitive, unless you think of it as "pouring" from an empty pitcher into a glass. Thanks again. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
