On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:21:25PM +0200, Tobias Walkowiak wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:46:00PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > > > > > dd if=/dev/sd1c of=/dev/null bs=64k > > ^r > > > > Do yourself a favor and use the raw device. > > why?
Because you use block devices for mounting, and raw devices for
anything else. In some cases a block devices might work for a
particular purpose, but why take chances?
-Otto
