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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=32k
> > The dd of BL3.40 is busybox and it did not work.
> > unknown option dd if=/dev/zero
>
> I just tried it (in BL 3.40) and it works fine.
> I suspect you made a typographical error.

I just tried it again, from / on the Toshiba laptop, typed as above, and I 
made sure it is 'if=/dev/zero ...' (not \dev\zero...) and it is still an 
unknown option.

Then I did a 'which dd' and it is in /bin (symlink to busybox).  I did a
cd to /bin and then './dd if=/dev/zero ....' and it worked.
'set' shows that bin is on the path and there is only that one dd.

Why would dd not work from /   in BL3.40?  Is this some sort of quirk of 
busybox 1.01?  Please try dd in / yourself.   Other busybox programs that 
I tried work from / (telnet, route, wc, uname...).

I was able to make the BL2 swapfile while in /.  I will move it there 
unless it ought to be somewhere else, and point rc at it there.

> > is there some other way to make a swapfile with BL3 itself other
> > than adding a larger dd?

> I just made a swapfile in BL3 using the existing dd.

What directory were you in at the time?  dd also does not work from /etc .

> Cheers,
> Steven
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