dd (coreutils 6.10)

Hi, I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition. I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times before giving up. Could it not give up on each block after say.. 1 or 2 tries?

Re: dd (coreutils 6.10)

Hi, Pádraig Brady wrote on 29/06/08 11:35: Jon Grant wrote: Hi, I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition. I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times before giving

Re: dd (coreutils 6.10)

Hi, thanks for the quick reply. Andreas Schwab wrote on 29/06/08 11:59: Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times before giving up. Could it not give up on each block after say.. 1 or 2 tries? dd just tells the kernel t

Re: dd (coreutils 6.10)

Hello, Sorry for late response. Andreas Schwab wrote on 04/07/08 17:05: Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: that's interesting, as the error log made it look like it was dd that was looping. Which error log? Unfortunately I do not have it. Ubuntu crashed when I inserted the

md5sum extra option --silent request

Hello, Could an extra option be added to md5sum to only display file sums which don't fail verification when checking? For example the addition of this extra argument -s, --silent only report errors Then we can check with md5sum -c -s I would be happy to code this and submit a pa

dd.c crash coreutils-5.97

Hi, Hello, I experiece a crash when copying fd0 into a file on my Kubuntu 6.06 system, I downloaded and built coreutils myself and got the same result. print_stats() dd.c:553, the crash is in fprintf, which calls strlen(), could be the localised format string or something else. I'm happy to look

Re: dd.c crash coreutils-5.97

Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. [...] > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.1.tar.gz Ok, with this it works fine. Is coreutils due for release soon? Please include my email address in any replies. Kind regards Jon ___ Bug-coreutils mailin

Report bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chcon (coreutils) 5.0

Hi, I noticed this in the man page of chcon: Report bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Just thought I'd let you know in case it's not already been spotted. Kind regards Jon ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/ma