Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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David Haller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, Dale wrote:
>> David Haller wrote:
>>> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote:
>>>> David Haller wrote:
> [..]
>>>>>     ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock
>>> [..]
>>>> I got it to compile, at least it created a file named ones anyway.  What
>>>> I'm unclear about, where is the if= for dd in the command?  All the
>>>> commands I've seen before has a if= and a of=.  The if for input and of
>>>> for output or target.
>>> ==== man 1 dd ====
>>>        if=FILE
>>>               read from FILE instead of stdin
>>> [..]
>>>        of=FILE
>>>               write to FILE instead of stdout
>>> ====
>>>
>>> note the stuff after 'instead' ;)
>> So it is piped in with the | thingy?  Got it. 
> Exactly. Hm. Maybe 'dev_one' might be a better name for the program...
> Or something ;)
>
> [..]
>> Thanks much.
> You're welcome.
>
> -dnh
>


That name makes sense.  Later on, I might look at that file and say,
what is that for?  Hit delete and down the rabbit hole it goes.  I think
I'll go do that and also edit my notes as well.  Before I forget it.  ;-)

Now I have a way to write ones to a drive or file.  Yeppie! 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S. I hope the new glasses, when they come in, helps my memory.  Never
hurts to hope right? 

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