Subj : copy images under OpenBSD
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon Nov 27 2000 10:06 pm

Hi Lawrence.

26-Nov-00 09:38:18, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Jasen Betts

 LG> Jasen Betts said in a message to Francois Thunus:

 JB>> given a CD how can you determine how big it's image will be?

 JB>> With a ruler and a magnifying glass you could make an estimate of
 JB>> how much of the CD has been used ... but how do you get that info
 JB>> from the computer ?

 LG> Best way is to do this:

 LG> dd if=/dev/rcdrom of=/dev/null bs=1k

 LG> and note how many blocks are read -- which will tell you the size
 LG> of the image in K

Yeah, but Ulrich said he got sizes in the gigabytes when he tried that...

 -=> Bye <=-

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