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Re: remark from dd



On Wednesday 30 June 2010 18:07:22 peasthope@shaw.ca 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?

Presumably the floppy disk is full/too small?  They are/were pretty small by 
modern standards!  And presumably disk two is larger?

Lisi


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