[SunHELP] dd command

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Probably your output device file (of=/dev/rdsk/cxtxdx) does not exist, 
typo?, so the data is written into a newly created plain file in /dev, 
filling up your disk.

Heinrich Rebehn

Zakaria A. Mattar wrote:
> I was trying to dublicate my harddisk
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/cxtxdx of=/dev/rdsk/cxtxdx bs=128bs
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sree [mailto:sreep at qnetstaff.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: Zakaria A. Mattar
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] dd command
> 
> 
> what are u doing with dd dd just takes the input and sends it to the std
> output,
> what are u exactly doing with dd .
> 
> sree
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zakaria A. Mattar" <zmattar at atc.com.sa>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:28 AM
> Subject: [SunHELP] dd command
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> Whenever I used the dd command the root partition will be full 100 %.
> Any idea
> 
> Zakaria A. Mattar
> Advanced Telecom Co.
> Operation Engineer
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