Re: dumb idea(s) (tm)

["Crist Clark" <crist.clark () globalstar com>]

matias wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Crist Clark wrote:
>
> mother:/tmp$ touch bighonkin.file
> mother:/tmp$ ls -l bighonkin.file
> -rw-r-----   1 s0t4ipv6 users           0 Jul  2 10:53 bighonkin.file
> mother:/tmp$ df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2              1984044   1606720    274912  85% /
> /dev/hdb1              2371820   1456960    794376  65% /opt
> mother:/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bighonkin.file count=1 seek=1000m
> dd: invalid number `1000m'
> mother:/tmp$
>
> any idea? my system is slackware 7.0.

Your dd(1) does not understand 'm' to mean Megabytes. Just do,

  $ dd if=/dev/zero of=bighonkin.file count=1 seek=2048000

For the same effect. 2048 blocks == 1 MB.
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