2 Dec
2012
2 Dec
'12
8:12 p.m.
On Dec 2, 2012, at 23:00, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
David Riley wrote:
An IBM partition map wouldn't do me much good on a
PDP-11, now, would it? :-) See my other email; turns
out I was writing without a disk inserted and Linux's block
layer was happily throwing away my data at 12.5 MB/s.
Not sure what I verified my first block against that made
me think the data was written correctly, but my daughter
woke us up every two hours last night, so my cognitive
facilities aren't running at 100% right now.
- Dave
I'm just dd'ing it as well.
And you're dding to something like /dev/sdb? *Not* /dev/sdb1?