Re: Disk copy, last sector problem

[Philippe Troin]

David Balazic <david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc
> 
> This would not copy the entire disk as expected, but miss the last sector if
> the number of
> sectors on hda is odd. ( I used "cat" becasue it has the simplest syntax,
> "dd" and other behave the same ).
> Has this been fixed recently ?
> What about suppport of other sectors sizes, like 8kb ?

Have you tried setting the device block size to its sector size?

  blockdev --setbsz $(blockdev --getss /dev/...) /dev/...

Phil.
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