On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> written, so there's no error in creating them - all I can think of is that
> dd attempts to read beyond the end of the disk {logical, since I didn't
> give it an end point} and fails, resulting in the error.
>
> What I want to know is if there is someway of guestimating how many blocks
> DD will need to read to get exactly to the end of the source disk without
> an error.
I think it would be the size as reported by df after mounting the disk.
There might be hidden bits of data that don't get recorded by df but are
important to the disk, though...
Better ways of duplicating CDs are:
* Using cdread (input equivalent of cdrecord) to rip the disk, or
* Mounting the disk and running mkisofs over it.
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