On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:12:09 -0600 (CST) "Timothy Legg" <debianuser@timothylegg.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have got another interesting problem here. I found a way to crash > dd so badly that even kill -9 `pidof dd` won't even phase it. The > only way I have found to kill it effectively is to shut down the > machine. > > Scenario: > <snippage> I had the same thing happen recently. It is as if dd is hitting the end of the device and then locking up instead of stopping gracefully. I was able to duplicate the issue with several USB-sticks using both dd and dd_rescue. The solution was to tell dd where to stop coping the device. For a 1GB memory stick I used "dd bs=1G count=1" or "dd_rescue -m 1G" -- Bill Thompson BillT@Mahagonny.com
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