On 10/6/19 8:50 PM, jdow wrote:
On 20191006 01:34:45, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:05 AM ToddAndMargo via users
> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> Fedora 30 x64
>>
>> # dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress
>> 8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s, 218 MB/s
>> dd: error writing '/dev/dull': No space left on device
>> 2034754+0 records in
>> 2034753+0 records out
>> 8334348288 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.8 GiB) copied, 38.4257 s, 217 MB/s
>>
>> /dev/null is full ??? Huh ???
>
> 1) "/dev/null" not "/dev/dull"
>
> 2) "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" not "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null"
Don't you hate it when you do that (item 2), Tom?
He did have them in the right order.
"if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" would do nothing at all.