On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:45 AM Robert Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless "conv=sync" is used, it does not. Without "conv=sync", when the > input > reaches EOF, dd will write whatever partial block has been read. If you > _do_ > use "conv=sync", then that output block will be zero-padded to the obs > size. > If the output is to a device and not a file, that might cause a superfluous > "out of space" message and a failure exit code. If output is to a file, > then > the resulting file could be larger than the source. > > The status message from dd indicates the number of complete+partial blocks > read and written, e.g.: > 1201+1 records in > 1202+0 records out > showing an output block that was padded to the full block size. > > So it's better to use "sync" and not "noerror", right ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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