Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:20:06 +0100
From: Mario Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: Sytse Wielinga <s.b.wielinga@student.utwente.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Sytse Wielinga wrote:
> Why not just use dd if=/dev/xxx `blockdev --getbsz /dev/xxx` ...?

because it doesn't work, as I've demonstrated in
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> root@darkside:~# dd if=/dev/hdg7 of=/dev/null bs=512
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 22:07: rw=0, want=4996184, limit=4996183
> dd: reading `/dev/hdg7': Input/output error
> 9992360+0 records in
> 9992360+0 records out
> 5116088320 bytes transferred in 92,603241 seconds (55247400 bytes/sec)
> root@darkside:~#
> 
> Fixing dd's blocksize to 512 doesn't help either.


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