[tlug] Re: Disk geometry

[Tobias Diedrich <td@example.com>]

Frank Bennett wrote:

> What is the reason for the "sync" (or "block" or "unblock") directive in the
> example? I'm not sure I understand the "blocks" concept.  Is dd sensitive to
> blocking info forwarded by the device in some way?  Or does "sync" just pad
> out an incomplete final block with nulls?

Yes without sync the erroneous parts will be completely skipped in the
output, with sync it writes zeroes instead.

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