From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 10:39:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D1637B418 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1323BCDC; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21085; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:23 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA8Ib7j61240; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Nils Holland Cc: Subject: Re: dd and cat - Did I miss something? References: <20011108162026.F1790-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 08 Nov 2001 10:37:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011108162026.F1790-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Message-ID: <8l668l85yn.68l@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) 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 That dd's got some messed up error messages, no? If you have occasion to dd the other direction, be watchful of the "records in/out" output. IIRC, the format is undocumented, but it uses a "+" to indicate that the input data had a partial record and you need to watch that it doesn't leave the last, partial block off the CD. I found a solution in the use of dd's "sync" option. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message