Re: remark from dd

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700, peasthope wrote:

Given
root@dalton:/home/peter# dd if=disk2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=36k
dd: writing `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
41+0 records in
40+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 40.9183 s, 36.0 kB/s
root@dalton:/home/peter#
can anyone explain the remark "No space left" and the difference between
records in and records out?

dd reads in 41 blocks, and finds /dev/fd0 run of of space having written
40 blocks.

HTH

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