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Old 02-07-2012, 02:31 AM   #1
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Could some one can explain what does the following command & what will be the expected out put from a new disk?

dd if=/dev/sdX bs=1024 count=1024|od
 
Old 02-07-2012, 02:38 AM   #2
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It will display the first Megabyte of the partition specified in lace of sdX, in (according to "man od") octal.

You may also be interested to know, if you want to "dry run" a dd command, you can substitute the in file, with "if=/dev/random" and the outfile with "of=/dev/null".
 
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Could some one can explain what does the following command & what will be the expected out put from a new disk?

dd if=/dev/sdX bs=1024 count=1024|od
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Old 02-07-2012, 08:13 AM   #4
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Sure smells like homework to me.
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Please do home work and reply to me....
 
Old 02-07-2012, 09:13 AM   #5
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Please do home work and reply to me....
May I suggest that you show what you have done then possibly we may help with the problem.
 
  


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