[mtools] mcat with DD disk

[Johannes Simon]

Hi,

I just subscribed to this list to report an error mit mcat:

I used

mcat a: > disk.img

on a DD disk with mtools 3.9.9 on a i386/debian/unstable system.
After performing well for a while a read error occured (I suppose mcat 
expected a HD disk); the error message was repeated several times 
until mcat began to flood my harddisk: The second time I did this 
experiment (I don't want to do it again) I watched the size of the 
disk.img file growing suddenly (!) over 1GB (on a 
Reiserfs-partition). After succeeding in killing mcat (all system 
ressources were used for the harddisk) I did

rm disk.img ,

but this task didn't stop and I couldn't kill it any more (kill -9, as 
root). Strange....
My harddisk had a few inconsistencies after that ;-)

Hope this helps,

Johannes

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