From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 10:39:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f232.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.232]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A70C242C3 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21661 invoked by uid 0); 7 Feb 2000 18:38:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20000207183828.21660.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 134.177.80.254 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:38:28 PST X-Originating-IP: [134.177.80.254] From: "Jerry Lei" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: about dd Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:38:28 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I read the low level format of Hard Disk in the FreeBSD installation guide. The author use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 count=100 I have a question, why count=100? I use man dd, the manual says that count=n means Copy only n input blocks. If I use HD whose size more than the example one in the book. Do I still use count=100? Thanks, guys and gals Lei ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message