Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I did a rerun. The only apparent change in test conditions was I used a > different instance of Mate Terminal. > ... > 4460664832 bytes (4.5 GB) copied, 798.488 s, 5.6 MB/s > ... > richard@debian:~$ /sbin/isosize rerundvd9.iso > 4460664832
Did the dd runs with short "ls -l" result tell the "isosize" result, nevertheless ? > I've a gut feeling that Mate Terminal isn't redoing > blocks=$(expr $(/sbin/isosize /dev/sr0) / 2048) > every time. Command interpretation is supposed to depend on the shell interpreter (e.g. bash, dash, ksh) and not on the terminal emulator (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal, Konsole). On the first hand we have to concentrate on the messages from the dd runs which deliver too few bytes in the .iso files. After a dd run turned out to copy not enough bytes, look into the system log whether any error message about "sr0" has been freshly recorded. Steve McIntyre: > I'll tell you what's most likely wrong - you're storing your extracted > ISO images on a FAT32 filesystem which doesn't support file sizes > larger than 4GiB. But why did the retry succeed ? Richard: Did you copy to a different directory ? > Nagging memories of a similar problem with either Win95 or Win98. We fiercely deny any similarity with said systems. No bugs shared. Have a nice day :) Thomas
