13283 – typo in "dd" command in example "Code listing 6.1: Initializing first 1024 Sectors of HD"

Bug 13283 - typo in "dd" command in example "Code listing 6.1: Initializing first 1024 Sectors of HD"

Summary: typo in "dd" command in example "Code listing 6.1: Initializing first 1024 Se...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x...
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Reported:	2003-01-05 04:28 UTC by Regor Atalante
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Regor Atalante 2003-01-05 04:28:29 UTC

Example command in "Code listing 6.1" reads:
"# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdxy bs=1K"
yet if it is to do as the instructions say and only wipe the first 1024
sectors of the HD the command should be:
"# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdxy bs=1K count=1"

As written the command will wipe the entire hard drive. This shouldn't be
critical because the user would only zero out the partition table of a drive
on which nothing they wanted to keep existed. However, it still will take much
longer due to all the extra work to fill the drive.

Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-01-06 22:18:02 UTC

Thanks for the heads up, fixed in cvs.

Cheers,
//zhen