bug#38186: dd doesn't copy whole file when specifying units with bs

2019-11-13 Thread Clément Lassieur
Jack Hill writes: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, Clément Lassieur wrote: > >> Does this[1] help? >> >> [1]: >> https://superuser.com/questions/730801/dd-immidiately-completes-but-actually-needs-sync > > Indeed it does. I guess I just got lucky with the second invocation that data > got written out. Than

bug#38186: dd doesn't copy whole file when specifying units with bs

2019-11-13 Thread Jack Hill
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, Clément Lassieur wrote: Does this[1] help? [1]: https://superuser.com/questions/730801/dd-immidiately-completes-but-actually-needs-sync Indeed it does. I guess I just got lucky with the second invocation that data got written out. Thanks very much for the pointer, and s

bug#38186: dd doesn't copy whole file when specifying units with bs

2019-11-12 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Jack, > It seems that my version of dd from coreutils-8.31 does not seem to work > correctly when using units with the bs option (e.g. bs=1M). In the terminal > session below, I first use bs=1M. The output looks okay: dd appears to have > copied the whole 2.3GiB file, but it has done so impossi

bug#38186: dd doesn't copy whole file when specifying units with bs

2019-11-12 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Guix, It seems that my version of dd from coreutils-8.31 does not seem to work correctly when using units with the bs option (e.g. bs=1M). In the terminal session below, I first use bs=1M. The output looks okay: dd appears to have copied the whole 2.3GiB file, but it has done so impossibly