Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:32:45 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> |
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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?
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