Re: dd ... of=/dev/sd0 creates a file instead of writing to disk

[Joe]

Miod Vallat wrote:

Normally, this would work (in different OS's):

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0

However, this command creates a file /dev/sd0 and fills it with random data. I want to write this data to the disk instead.

The same thing happens when I use /dev/rsd0.

You want sd0c or rsd0c (hint: man 4 sd, FILES section).

That worked. Thank you.