AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Pádraig wrote:

> What is your exact dd command please, and destination file system.

I was running KNOPPIX 5.3.1; the source was a harddisk partition, and
the target was a file in an ext2 filesystem on a harddisk in an USB device
mounted on /media/sdb2/:

        $ dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/media/sdb2/backups/sda5 bs=1G

> I'm a bit confused as ftruncate is not called unless you specify a
> non zero seek= but that seems a bit weird from your described usage.

hmm, so maybe it has not actually been the truncate() which took
so long but the fd_reopen() using O_TRUNC.

Have a nice day,
Berny