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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users "Phantom" overwrite with dd on sda*? Post 302921521 by LinQ on Friday 17th of October 2014 07:13:47 PM
Old 10-17-2014
"Phantom" overwrite with dd on sda*?

Greetings.

Just wondering about a little "quirk" which I seem to have found when using dd Smilie (FWIW on that note, I'm using a flash install of Parted Magic to run dd in these tests...)

Thinking about it, there should be some measurable excitement associated with
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda* obs=10M

as the wildcard should take out each sda partition in turn.

Indeed, if one has multiple partitions to be wiped (while possibly keeping the boundaries for each), this might appear to be one way of getting the job done without much fuss.

However, using the above commandline, I've seen this output repeated on several different systems instead:
Code:
dd: writing to ‘/dev/sda*': No space left on device
2007040+0 records in
97+1 records out
1027362816 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.25925 s, 816 MB/s

...with what seems to be no overwrite activity whatsoever.

So, the central question is: Why do I always see the same exact records in/out @ 1.0 GB output here, regardless of the target machine/drive? Moreover, what does dd think it's writing to in this case?


Thanks!
 

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PPI::Token::Magic(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      PPI::Token::Magic(3)

NAME
PPI::Token::Magic - Tokens representing magic variables INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::Magic isa PPI::Token::Symbol isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element SYNOPSIS
# When we say magic variables, we mean these... $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $_ $& $` $' $+ @+ %+ $* $. $/ $| $\ $" $; $% $= $- @- %- $) $# $~ $^ $: $? $! %! $@ $$ $< $> $( $0 $[ $] @_ @* $} $, $#+ $#- $^L $^A $^E $^C $^D $^F $^H $^I $^M $^N $^O $^P $^R $^S $^T $^V $^W $^X DESCRIPTION
"PPI::Token::Magic" is a sub-class of PPI::Token::Symbol which identifies the token as "magic variable", one of the strange and unusual variables that are connected to "things" behind the scenes. Some are extremely common, like $_, and others you will quite probably never encounter in your Perl career. METHODS
The class provides no additional methods, beyond those provided by it's PPI::Token::Symbol, PPI::Token and PPI::Element. SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::Magic(3)
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