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bug#19065: dd design bug
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Assaf Gordon |
Subject: |
bug#19065: dd design bug |
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Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:03:41 -0600 |
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close 19065
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 16/11/14 12:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
bt wrote:
The following undocumented behavior of dd is (IMO) a design flaw.
If dd actually did this then that would be quite annoying. And I
could see anyone becoming very frustrated with it. But the reason
this is not documented in dd is that dd doesn't do this.
[...]
What is in your partition table? There are many different ways to
browse the partition table. I am not the most proficient with parted
but parted is likely the most capable in the face of newer GPT
formats. I am perhaps not even likely to be able to interpret the
answer but I think this information would be needed and if not me then
perhaps another may be able to interpret it.
parted /dev/sdb unit s print
With no further follow-ups to Bob's explanation in 4 years,
I'm closing this bug.
-assaf
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