From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 9 0:59:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B4F37B41B for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-125.wobline.de [212.68.69.133]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fA98x3r05251; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:59:06 +0100 Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA98x6D24233; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:59:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by howie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA98x7900888; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:59:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:59:07 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd and cat - Did I miss something? In-Reply-To: <15339.21469.343879.858201@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20011109095622.D863-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Personally, I think this change is a violation of POLA, as most Unices > support cooked devices doing "the right thing." Not all of them did, > so using them that way is a bad - albeit very common - habit that > we're going to have to get over. Thanks for the detailed information - now I really know why dd didn't want to work the way I wanted it too. Actually, since I said dd worked for me in the past without specifying a blocksize, this demonstrates how long it's past that I have copied my last CD ;-) From now on, I'll simply specify the bs=2048 (or forget to do that several times and then wonder, once again, why it won't work), and everything'll be fine. Thanks again for the information! Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message