On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 21:19:43 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Upon reflection I'd be willing to bet it's down to the difference > between versions of coreutils - there's a couple of minor changes up > until 8.9 (according to NEWS). While most of the changes I've read > about improve speed and remove some minor bugs, I haven't noticed any > that increase functionality. So it may well the current Debian > version would work - just might be fussier about exact commands. > ArchLinux appears to use the version currently in git, I haven't > looked at it (8.10 changes). I'll have to have another read of the > upstream docs when I've got some time (and my eyes are rested). > <snipped> > > I use dd a lot, so still curious.
That's a good thought and makes complete sense. One thing to add is that the documentation I'm going off of was written back in 2008 and specifically mentions doing this successfully from Linux (though not sure which distro the author had used). I would think that if it worked back then with whatever dd/coreutils version was available that it should certainly work with today's coreutils. The dd command itself also seems fairly simple and not taking advantage of special features that might be newly available. Just to see what would happen, I just grabbed an old CentOS release from 2008 (4.7 with coreutils 5.2.1). It worked correctly there just like with Arch 2010.05. Not sure what I'm missing here :). Thanks, -Mark -- 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/20110413071313.74e9a...@mkproductions.org
