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    On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:

    > And what kind of meaning would you assign to truncate on floppy?

    On a block or char device, truncate == lseek seems reasonable.

    My guess is that dd uses ftruncate because that's correct for
    regular files and has happened to also work (as an alias for
    lseek) for devices.

    > Use conv=notrunc.

    I didn't know about notrunc. Yet another GNU invention?

    /Mikael
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