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Re: dd in loop doesn't transfer full blocks
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Henrik Carlqvist |
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Re: dd in loop doesn't transfer full blocks |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:04:10 -0000 |
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jim <gana1nm@hotmail.com> wrote:
> while $not_finished
> do dd bs=$BS count=1
> The problem is that dd never transfers a full block; $BS is about
> 400000, and each time through the loop, dd only transfers about 73xxx
> bytes, and sometimes less.
Is $BS a multiple of something? If so, maybe it would help to do something
like:
do dd bs=`echo $BS/8 | bc` count=8
regards Henrik
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