Bug 449683

Summary: [CHAPTER 7.2.] Block_Devices.xml
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Michael Hideo <mhideo>
Component: doc-Virtualization_GuideAssignee: Christopher Curran <ccurran>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Don Domingo <ddomingo>
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Version: 5.2Keywords: Documentation
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_block_devices-Adding_additional_storage_devices_to_a_guest.html
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Fixed In Version: 5.2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Michael Hideo 2008-06-03 01:22:23 UTC 
much easier to use M suffix on dd.  Use count=0 instead of count=1 to avoid
writing the single block of zeros.  With these two changes, the examples become:

 

 sparse:     dd if=/dev/zero of=FileName.img bs=1M seek=4096 count=0

 non-sparse: dd if=/dev/zero of=FileName.img bs=1M count=4096
Comment 1 Christopher Curran 2008-06-05 05:16:47 UTC 
fixed