Re: remark from dd

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700, peasthope wrote:

> Given
>     root@dalton:/home/peter# dd if=disk2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=36k
>     dd: writing `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
>     41+0 records in
>     40+0 records out
>     1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 40.9183 s, 36.0 kB/s
>     root@dalton:/home/peter# 
> can anyone explain the remark "No space left" and the difference between
> records in and records out?

dd reads in 41 blocks, and finds /dev/fd0 run of of space having written 
40 blocks.

HTH

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