On Mon, 18 May 2009, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:21:25PM +0200, Tobias Walkowiak wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:46:00PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
dd if=/dev/sd1c of=/dev/null bs=64k
^r
Do yourself a favor and use the raw device.
why?
Because you use block devices for mounting, and raw devices for
anything else. In some cases a block devices might work for a
particular purpose, but why take chances?
While this rule is probably right, a few tools, such as atactl(8) or
smartctl from ports say something else in their respective man pages.
Well, these two utilities are not handling the block themselves, but
anyway. Is this a bug in the man pages?
Regads,
David
