On 20191008 05:24:34, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:50 AM jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote:On 20191006 01:34:45, Tom H wrote:On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:05 AM ToddAndMargo via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:Fedora 30 x64 # dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress 8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s, 218 MB/s dd: error writing '/dev/dull': No space left on device 2034754+0 records in 2034753+0 records out 8334348288 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.8 GiB) copied, 38.4257 s, 217 MB/s /dev/null is full ??? Huh ???1) "/dev/null" not "/dev/dull" 2) "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" not "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null"Don't you hate it when you do that (item 2), Tom? {^_-}LOL. I was thinking of "dd if=/dev/urandom ...". I did this three weeks ago before backing up some systemd config files that I wanted to keep :( But the OP actually wanted "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null". I'm not sure that "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" does much, but I wouldn't test it on a partition whose data I'd prefer not to lose :)
One way device. It will not read.
{^_-}
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