Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> said: > >># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M seek=1007620 <snip> > Well, man says about seek: > > seek=N skip N obs-sized blocks at start of output > > and obs defaults to 512 bytes, and I *THOUGHT* fdisk was reporting # > 512 blocks, not bytes.
fdisk reports sectors (that's the default in recent years, it can be configured to report in different units). However, look again at the dd command; the block size was set to 1M (=1048576 bytes), and then the seek was set to 1007620 blocks, which is almost 1TB. If you are going to raise the block size, you have to recalculate everything else that is expressed in blocks. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
