[Debburn-devel] WARNING, BAD dd COMMAND in Re: LG CH08LS10 not burning CDs

Thomas Schmitt scdbackup at gmx.net
Sun Jan 3 09:13:38 UTC 2010


Hi,

i wrote:
>   time dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=1M count=100

This is dangerous.
It will pipe binary data to your terminal.

Use

  time dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=1M count=100 of=/dev/null

Sorry for the bad advise.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas




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