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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

Folks, sorry to quote all this, but didn't want to risk confusion. See 
bottom.

On 8 Feb 2006 at 2:17, sindi keesan wrote:
> 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 .

I booted BL 3.40, and changed to  /

(By the way, 'which dd' says it's in /bin (symlink to busybox), just as you 
found)

Then I did   dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=32k   and ran out of 
space.  ( swapfile  was about 28Mb)

So I deleted  swapfile  and changed the command to something like

dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=20k 

and it said   something-or-other records in, something bla bla out.

And  swapfile  was there, about 20Mb ?

All this was while in  /

I didn't check the path, but think it's still the original one of 3.40

Thanks,
Sheldon