dd anyone?

[Bill Jonas]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:19:24PM -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> As I said, the copy of SBM I have is 108K. Floppies are written in 512 
> Byte blocks. 108 x 1024 = 216 x 512. Writing only the 108K needed is a 
> lot faster than writing the whole floppy.

It won't write the whole disk, though.  Once it runs out of input file,
it'll stop anyway.  The only time I use count=X is when I'm dd'ing from
an infinite source, like /dev/zero.

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