>Number: 186495 >Category: misc >Synopsis: option to read and write last block of a disk for dd(1) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 05 20:00:01 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Chris Whitehouse >Release: 10.0R amd64 >Organization: Chris Whitehouse >Environment: FreeBSD chaos.bikerevolution.co.uk 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: It would be great if dd(1) could read and write the last block of a disk without the user having to calculate blocks. Eg gpt partition schemes store metadata in the last sector. Suggested option could be seek=-1.
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