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Re: remark from dd

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? 

Thanks,            ... Peter E.




  Try it again without the bs=36k.
I know dd will pad zeros to it so the last block is a full 36K. This is probably making the disk image too big. 

PaulNM
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