On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:02 AM Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Does dd write a complete final block to the destination.  If so, the image
> would not be an exact copy unless the source size is an exact multiple of
> the blocksize.


I don't know. I have not tried it yet.

How would I verify something like that?


> Gdisk reports my root filesystem is 240197632 1K blocks long.
>
> $ factor 240197632
> 240197632: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 109 269
>
> So 2^13, or 8KB is the largest block size where input and output would
> match.
>
>
I don't quite follow the logic.

Can you please elaborate ?

-- 
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
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