Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:40:50 +0100 From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> To: Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dd and mbr Message-ID: <CADqw_g%2BJJqFC-N==yKLU2OEwVE%2BbL%2Ba=69=ciwz1PcVPEu5nsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <99901737-c828-11f9-d694-90c29e61f967@gmail.com> References: <4af920fc-eff1-a92e-d36e-1ba97079864c@gmail.com> <20220111111141.4bd7a6cb@archlinux> <99901737-c828-11f9-d694-90c29e61f967@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Roderick, On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:29 AM Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> wrote: > > No. That does not work. That is why I am asking. > > bs=512 is the default. Without count is more than with count. > How did you come to the idea that that would work? > I think Ralf was asking "did you use count=1?" - IOW, how much did you overwrite. regards Michael > > Rod. > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2022, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:02:26 +0000 (UTC), Roderick wrote: > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1 > > > > or > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 > > > > ? > > > > > > -- Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ recursion, n: see 'recursion' [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Roderick,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:29 AM Roderick <<a href="mailto:hruodr@gmail.com">hruodr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br> No. That does not work. That is why I am asking.<br> <br> bs=512 is the default. Without count is more than with count.<br> How did you come to the idea that that would work?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think Ralf was asking "did you use count=1?" - IOW, how much did you overwrite.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Michael</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br> Rod.<br> <br> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022, Ralf Mardorf wrote:<br> <br> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:02:26 +0000 (UTC), Roderick wrote:<br> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0<br> ><br> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1<br> ><br> > or<br> ><br> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512<br> ><br> > ?<br> ><br> ><br> <br> </blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Michael Schuster<br><a href="http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/</a><br></div><div>recursion, n: see 'recursion'<br></div></div></div></div>help
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