7 Mar
2013
7 Mar
'13
9:39 a.m.
On 03/06/2013 07:25 PM, Roe Peterson wrote:
Logical blocks, yes. But AFAIK, it has no capability to reproduce the
size of physical blocks when doing a tape-to-disk transfer. How could
it? Unix has no way to specify the size of variable-sized physical
blocks on disk.
--Chuck
dd doesn't
change blocking, it's just a byte-by-byte dump, unless
you specify otherwise. Tar, on the other hand, looks for files.
Actually, dd uses 512-byte blocks by default,and always has. At least
since V6, anyway...