Re: Does dd truncate?

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Does dd truncate?
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 wrote:

> so if I
> $dd if=big of=small
> then will dd just ignore the any data past the size of the smaller of
> the 2 drives?


It will output some error messages and the number of complete and
partial blocks.

Have a look at the dd manpage and the dd info document and read about
"notrunc".

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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