On 10/6/19 1:34 AM, Tom H wrote:
On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:05 AM ToddAndMargo via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Fedora 30 x64
>
> # dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress
> 8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s, 218 MB/s
> dd: error writing '/dev/dull': No space left on device
> 2034754+0 records in
> 2034753+0 records out
> 8334348288 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.8 GiB) copied, 38.4257 s, 217 MB/s
>
> /dev/null is full ??? Huh ???
1) "/dev/null" not "/dev/dull"
2) "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" not "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null"
Actually I did want if=/dev/sdb. This is testing if the
entire contents of the drive can be read. The stick is
a warranty replacement of one that failed this test. the
new stick passed. Well, after spelling null correctly.