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From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: David Balazic <david.balazic@hermes.si>
Cc: "'Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disk copy, last sector problem
Date: 22 Jun 2004 09:52:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smcncz6h.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <600B91D5E4B8D211A58C00902724252C01BC0700@piramida.hermes.si>

David Balazic <david.balazic@hermes.si> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc
> 
> This would not copy the entire disk as expected, but miss the last sector if
> the number of
> sectors on hda is odd. ( I used "cat" becasue it has the simplest syntax,
> "dd" and other behave the same ).
> Has this been fixed recently ?
> What about suppport of other sectors sizes, like 8kb ?

Have you tried setting the device block size to its sector size?

  blockdev --setbsz $(blockdev --getss /dev/...) /dev/...

Phil.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22  9:30 Disk copy, last sector problem David Balazic
2004-06-22 16:52 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2004-06-23 17:59   ` Andries Brouwer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-24  7:32 David Balazic
2004-06-29 22:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-06-29 22:19   ` viro

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