On Friday 12 January 2007 00:10, S Glasoe wrote:
Actually, for dd the units are CS (1024, 1024 * 1024, 1024 * 1024 * 1024, resp.).
To wit:
% dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=2K count=1M 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 1.30146 seconds, 1.7 GB/s
If you divide it out, you find that it's using power-of-two Ks, Ms and Gs (except for the summary line--go figure).
Also, for some reason 'm' is not allowed, only 'M', but either 'k' or 'K' are allowed but both mean 1024 (I tried 'em both).
And don't forget to swapon the file... man swapon for more info.
And don't forget to mkswap after dd before swapon. See man mkswap, too. # dd ... # mkswap ... # swapon ... (# $EDITOR /etc/fstab) -- Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org