On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:52:16AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
I have never heard of anyone prefering to cp or cat a block device over using dd with a proper block size when doing partition/device zeroing (or as I prefer to do it, urandom'ing :P )/copying, or data cd/dvd copying.
Well, I've never heard of people using dd instead of cp for moving large groups of files from one place to another, which causes exactly the same problem on the system as dd'ing a device and is much more common. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
