22 Feb
2007
22 Feb
'07
2:24 a.m.
Can someone tell me how the dd command handles block sizes? The man page and any Linux books I have don't explain it very well.
If I specify dd if=\dev\mydevice ... bs=1M What happens if mydevice has a fraction of a block left over?
What is "notrunc" for the output file? Truncation from what to what?
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-Dan
Dr. Dan Martin, MD, CCFP, BSc, BCSc (Hon)
GP Hospital Practitioner
Computer Science grad student
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