On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:15:24 +0100
Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> But I don't know how to do this. From reading "man dd"
> my impression (consistent with my experience) is that
> the option skip= operates in units of bs= size, so I'm
> not sure how to compose a command that reads units of
> 1 MB, but skips in units of 950 kB. Maybe some parts of
> my memory have also been marked "unused" by fsck. :-)
Not too hard (you'll kick yourself when you read down) - translation
to valid shell script is left as an exercise for the reader :)
bs=50k count=(n*20) skip=(n*20 - 1)
Probably nicer to use powers of 2
bs=64k count=(n*16) skip=(n*16 - 1)
--
Steve O'Hara-Smith <[email protected]>
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