[email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question according to the 28-bit LBA limit and the GNU dd tool. > > The english Wikipedia states, that Seagate warns, that GNU dd may fail to > opperate files/images larger than 128GB due to the mentioned old 28-bit LBA > limit. I searched today a lot on the web, but didn't find any hint, whether > this affects the current version of dd. > > Unfortunately I have no insights in the innards of the GNU coreutils, and how > they exactly work. > > So, is the current version of dd capable of creating disk images larger than > 128GB?
dd should be able to stream aribtrary amounts of data. For seeking etc. it uses off_t internally which is 63 bits on my system $ printf "%'d\n" $((2**63-1)) 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 Your file systems and block devices will have lower limits. cheers, Pádraig.
