From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 19 05:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17856 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17822; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:59:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@FreeBSD.org) From: John-Mark Gurney Received: (from jmg@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id FAA18191; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:58:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:58:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802191358.FAA18191@freefall.freebsd.org> To: ortmann@sparc.isl.net, jmg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5755 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: dd drops block when of=/dev/rfd0a State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: jmg State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 19 05:56:10 PST 1998 State-Changed-Why: some device have a minimum size that you can write to... mose disk devices have a min of 512bytes... to write the final block out to disk, also add conv=osync to the dd line which will force the final block to be writen... # dd if=as of=/dev/rda1b conv=osync 0+1 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.004164 secs (122959 bytes/sec) # ls -l as -rw-r--r-- 1 jmg jmg 13 Feb 19 05:53 as To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message