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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:56:19 GMT
From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: option to read and write last block of a disk for dd(1)
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>Number:         186495
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [request] option to read and write last block of a disk for dd(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 05 20:00:01 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Wed Feb 05 21:45:30 UTC 2014
>Originator:     Chris Whitehouse
>Release:        10.0R amd64
>Organization:
Chris Whitehouse
>Environment:
FreeBSD chaos.bikerevolution.co.uk 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014     root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
It would be great if dd(1) could read and write the last block of a disk
without the user having to calculate blocks. Eg gpt partition schemes store
metadata in the last sector. Suggested option could be seek=-1.

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