[rescue] Ass like fire
George Adkins
george at webbastard.org
Sat Feb 2 04:17:47 CST 2002
> > > Wait... Don't you need to specify a block size for that particular
> > > media???
> >
> > right, blocksize determines the pitch, the smaller the blocksize, the
> > squeaker the fart. i.e.
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/ass of=./fart conv=notrunc bs=512
> > produces a much more Brian-like fart than
> > # dd if=/dev/ass of=./fart conv=notrunc bs=2048
> > which is a more Dave-like blast.
>
> Don't forget LSBc and MSBc issues...
>
> least and most significant butt cheek .
>
Crap. We've forgotten all about endian-ness issues. Can we do byte
reordering? If /dev/ass is a block device, then does that mean that we can
write to it as well as read from it?
(Don't even go there, Dave, My /dev/ass is read-only, and cannot be
mounted...)
George
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