DD not working--SUCCESS!

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>    Here is my final paper on using dd. Feel free to shoot at it.
>>     
>
>   
>> 8. Think of how dd works this way, dd see's the source partition as
>> just a pile of bytes.
>>     
>
> what is a "pile" of bytes?
>
>   
>> 9. The default number of bytes per Block is defaulted to 150.
>>     
>
> only in your imagination, karl.
>
>   
>> The info DD says
>> this:
>> `bs=BYTES'
>>     Set both input and output block sizes to BYTES.  This makes `dd'
>>     read and write BYTES per block, overriding any `ibs' and `obs'
>>     settings.
>> So if in a hurry you can use bs=15000 which will be a good thing because the
>> IDE hard drive controllers are quite slow. So rather than sending just 150
>> bytes per change, you send 15,000. A transfer will look like:
>>
>>    # dd bs=15000 if=/dev/sda6 of=/dev/sdb5
>>
>> I have not tried this. No reason to think it will not work.
>>     
>
> karl, why in god's name are you writing documentation ostensibly to
> help others do things that you haven't even verified yourself?
> please, karl, do everyone a favour, and stop trying to do them any
> more favours.  all you're going to do is lead someone into doing
> something disastrously disastrous.
>
> and please, karl, for the last time, get a blog where you can publish
> all this incorrect and potentially damaging guidance.  the amount of
> everyone's time you've wasted in "finally" producing documentation
> that is still incorrect is really quite breathtaking.
>
> rday
>   
Thanks for your help rday.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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