[cygwin] DD bug fails to wipe last 48 sectors of a disk
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Wed Jun 24 10:21:26 GMT 2020
Greetings, Hashim Aziz!
Bottom posting in this channel, please.
> I've just tested with the command:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda iflag=fullblock bs=4M status=progress
oflag=direct
Although I'm unsure how Cygwin/Windows handles it. But without this flag, the
write is cached, and the problem may be outside dd, or even Cygwin.
> ...and can confirm that the last 48 sectors remain unwiped in this case also.
> Here is the output:
> 1000182120448 bytes (1.0 TB, 931 GiB) copied, 8284 s, 121 MB/s
> dd: error writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device
> 238468+0 records in
> 238467+0 records out
> 1000204861440 bytes (1.0 TB, 932 GiB) copied, 8284.89 s, 121 MB/s
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 13:19:42
Sorry for my terrible english...
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