...I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes. So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024
That's exactly what it is supposed to do. Perhaps you tought /dev/random could generate random numbers much faster. So when it's entropy pool was exhausted after 4KB, you tought it stopped working.
Nope I did not abort it, I just moved the mouse to generate more random numbers (with dd running in X terminal). What dd says is:
0+1024 records in 0+1024 records out
But the file still is just ~4k. Maybe a bug?
// Jarmo
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