On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700, peasthope wrote: > Given > r...@dalton:/home/peter# dd if=disk2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=36k > dd: writing `/dev/fd0': No space left on device > 41+0 records in > 40+0 records out > 1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 40.9183 s, 36.0 kB/s > r...@dalton:/home/peter# > can anyone explain the remark "No space left" and the difference between > records in and records out?
dd reads in 41 blocks, and finds /dev/fd0 run of of space having written 40 blocks. HTH -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i0fv62$4d...@dough.gmane.org