Please ignore my brainlessness tonight. The answer was, like the answer to the first was, right under my nose. I forgot about the steps I took last night. I was scared off by the prompt from mkfs.ext2 about the file not being a block device ;) In any event, fixed :) -Statux On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > 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 :) > > > > -- -Statux _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
