[H-GEN] Cleaning up the MBR on a /dev/hda

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Thu Nov 17 19:42:18 EST 2005


On 2005-11-17, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:58:10PM +1000, Robert Webb wrote:
> 
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/recovery/mbr.bin count=1
> [...]
> [1] : I assume there's a "bs=512" argument to your first dd command
>       which was accidentally left off, since the command as it stands
> 			will simply fill your disk.

Surely Linux has not found yet another way to break old standard
programs?  Every version of the true dd(1) that I've seen uses
bs=512 as the default.  This was also true of POSIX dd, last
time I looked.

Cheers, Greg




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