Subj : copy images under OpenBSD
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Wed Nov 29 2000 12:03 pm

Jasen Betts said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:

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

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

Yeah.. I read that.

I think he did something other than do a dd of the CDROM. :-)

I've never ... -never- ... seen a case where dd was required to know the size 
of the object prior to the execution of the copy.

Even -if- that were the case, it's a simple matter to define the maxsize as 
1280000 blocks (640MB of 512 byte blocks).

Of course.. if he misinterpreted the count of 512 byte blocks as Kbytes, then I 
can see where one might hit 1000000 blocks on a 500MB CDROM and think it was a 
GigaByte.


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