Re: Disk copy, last sector problem

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> 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/...

If I understand correctly David is not reporting a problem, but
vaguely recalls that there was a problem in this area long ago,
and asks whet the current status is.

(Yes, today things are better, but not perfect yet :-))
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