On 6 Apr 2005 06:54:42 -0700, John Stumbles wrote:
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# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=test.out bs=1M
248+1 records in
248+1 records out

(Why am I getting 248+0 when writing, 248+1 when reading back?
What does the + figure mean? man dd and info coreutils dd invocation
doesn't tell me.)
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Can anyone help me with the + number issue with dd though?

The +1 means 1 partial record (less than bs) was read/written.
So something between 248M and 249M was read/written.