That's it.. I knew that dd must have a count option :) Thanks.
I don't need to man dd tho.. I use dd for more than just writing
images.. I also use it (with /dev/zero too) to write zeros to a disk to
clean it up, etc :)
Thanks! ;)
Oh.. that actually brings me to another question... I formatted an image
file last night while it was mounted because it was, then, bound to the
loop device. How would I go about formatting a blank image file (since I
cannot mount it)? :) (I'm full of questions tonight) :P
-Statux
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Statux wrote:
>
> > to make an image on the filesystem before writing it? I already
> > know how to format an image (I took an msdos 1.44MB image from a
> > floppy and reformatted it to ext2 while it was on one of my hdisk
> > partitions as a file) :)
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=my.file bs=1024 count=3000
>
> Or something so.. man dd :)
>
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