Re: a few minor bugs in the D-L Manual
On Thursday 27 November 2008 07:51:38 Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> >> $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1G seek=1 # for a 1G image file
> >> $ ls -gGl live-rw
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 1073741824 ... live-rw
> >
> > This is bogus too as it creates a file big as all free space in the
> > target devive...,
>
> The size of the file would be 1 GiB exactly, if the target
> filesystem has at least a few spare MiBs.
>
> Did you note that I've changed /dev/zero to /dev/null?
....no, I'm sorry :-D
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