dd didn't stop at partition boundary?

[jorg raskowski]

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?
> 

sorry, no idea why but can you not use 'bs=' and 'count=' arguments (and 
perhaps 'conv=' for sync'ing) to force dd to do the right thing?


regards, jr.