Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:58:45 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: ortmann@sparc.isl.net, jmg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5755 Message-ID: <199802191358.FAA18191@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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
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