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Re: newbie DD problem


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: newbie DD problem
Date: 26 Apr 2003 23:42:22 -0700
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"Ed Neidhardt" <address@hidden> writes:

> dd: writing `/dev/nst0': Invalid argument
> 
> 0+221 records in
> 
> 0+220 records out
> 
> The command was  dd if=flexman597.pdf of=/dev/nst0 bs=32k.

Most likely your tape drive is finicky about partial writes.  If you
don't mind appending trailing zeros, you can use something like
"dd ibs=32k obs=32k conv=sync if=flexman597.pdf of=/dev/nst0".




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