On Thursday 25 of December 2008 01:16:56 Kent Vander Velden wrote: > When a large block size is specified with dd (coreutils 6.12), the read is > truncated at 2GiB (on a x64 Linux 2.6.25 system.) The following examples > show attempts to write 6GiB. The first example attempts to write three 2 > GiB blocks, while the second example attempts to write a single 6 GiB > block. While the first succeeds, the latter only writes 2 GiB. The third > example shows the results from a patched version of dd. A patch is included > below the system information. I tried to follow the example of iwrite() > when patching iread(). Thank you for report and the patch. A patch like this is already included in current coreutils: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f674a10f7ebc55de6181007a5216a297e3dc3365
You can trigger this behavior by dd option iflag=fullblock. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
