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Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:10:11 +0200
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Subject: bug in dd-Command?  dd copies partition without the last 2048 bytes
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My partition table shows a total number of  398 460 132 sectors for 
partition sdd1, based on 512 bytes/sector , giving a total of 204 011 
587 584 bytes.

dd states 2048 bytes less:

dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/st0 bs=4096k
48460+1 records in
48460+1 records out
204 011 585 536 bytes (204 GB) copied, 11431.5 s., 17.8 MB/s


+204 011 587 584 partition size according to partition table
-204 011 585 536 bytes copied by dd
=2048

Is this a bug or do I misunderstand something?

Regards
Stefan

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