On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to 
> gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.

Minor improvement: instead of "using a very large count", simply
don't provide a count= argument at all:
    dd bs=32k skip=1 | whatever

Without a count=, dd will run till end-of-file, and not worry
about how many blocks it's copied.

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