Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1438 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

Let me try that again

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 00:44:40 I wrote:
> You really don't want to use conv=sync here. noerror is fine, but sync is
> not. With noerror, dd will continue, and try its best to fill up the output

..by reading some more from the input...

> buffer. With sync, it will bad

pad

> the output buffer with zeros

..instead of reading from the input...

> , which will do
> nasty things to your md5sum.
>
> Anders

ds.
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