Re: dd and mbr

Roderick,

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:29 AM Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> No. That does not work. That is why I am asking.
>
> bs=512 is the default. Without count is more than with count.
> How did you come to the idea that that would work?
>

I think Ralf was asking "did you use count=1?" - IOW, how much did you
overwrite.

regards
Michael

>
> Rod.
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:02:26 +0000 (UTC), Roderick wrote:
> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1
> >
> > or
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512
> >
> > ?
> >
> >
>
>

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