From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 20 18:48:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E8415169 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:48:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA44109; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:48:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:48:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Donn Miller Cc: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dd and gzip'd files Message-ID: <19991120204813.A44037@dan.emsphone.com> References: <38364D31.F1AD476E@cvzoom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38364D31.F1AD476E@cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:26:41AM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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