dd didn't stop at partition boundary?

[Man-wai Chang]

Sorry, I forgot about the difference between df and partition size .... :)

Man-wai Chang wrote:
> I was trying to copy a partiton of 9.7G (/dev/sda1) when mounted with 
> partition id being 27 (Unknown) to a file in an NTFS partition (/dev/sda3):
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda3/samsung.bin
> 
> dd didn't stop after samsung.bin reached the size of 9.7G and went 
> through 13G. I aborted it.
> 
> Why?
> 


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