[Cialug] Using dd and netcat to move a disk

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> Thanks gents.  I just wasn't being patient, it did finish, must have had to spool out a buffer?


Yeah, the pipe is buffered, and netcat has some buffers too, while stderr is not. When you add in the network delay it could be a while between when dd "finishes" and when all the data is actually written out to the network.

	Zach

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