Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:48:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dd and gzip'd files Message-ID: <19991120204813.A44037@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <38364D31.F1AD476E@cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:26:41AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911192341290.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <38364D31.F1AD476E@cvzoom.net>
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In the last episode (Nov 20), Donn Miller said: > Thanks. Here is what I tried: > > root@lc186 floppies# dd obs=16k conv=osync if=color.gz > of=/dev/rfd0 > 2453+1 records in > 77+0 records out > 1261568 bytes transferred in 50.994527 secs (24739 bytes/sec) > > It appears to have worked. I guess the output block size of 16k > is key for floppies, then. The conv=osync does the padding. The block size for floppies is 512 bytes (which happens to be dd's default blocksize), btw. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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