Re: dd in loop doesn't transfer full blocks

jim <[email protected]> wrote:
>    while $not_finished
>       do  dd bs=$BS count=1

> The problem is that dd never transfers a full block; $BS is about
> 400000, and each time through the loop, dd only transfers about 73xxx
> bytes, and sometimes less.

Is $BS a multiple of something? If so, maybe it would help to do something
like:

do  dd bs=`echo $BS/8 | bc` count=8

regards Henrik
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