Hi Stephen,

thanks for the reply.

I am not sure that I do understand you (sorry for my stupidity).

I have
=======================================
[root@pcfarm-10 ~]# yum list | grep coreutil
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
coreutils.x86_64                         5.97-34.el5 
installed
policycoreutils.x86_64                   1.33.12-14.8.el5 
installed
policycoreutils-gui.x86_64               1.33.12-14.8.el5 
installed
policycoreutils-newrole.x86_64           1.33.12-14.8.el5 
installed
[root@pcfarm-10 ~]# rpm -q --file /bin/dd
coreutils-5.97-34.el5
=============================================

Presumably all packages are appropriate (they have suffix x86_64) as 
shown by yum.

At the same time rpm does show packages without above suffixes

=========================
[root@pcfarm-10 ~]# rpm -qa | grep coreutil
policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.8.el5
policycoreutils-newrole-1.33.12-14.8.el5
coreutils-5.97-34.el5
policycoreutils-gui-1.33.12-14.8.el5
=========================




On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:32:40 +0100 (CET)
> From: Stephen J. Gowdy <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Andrey Y Shevel <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: coreutils for 64 bit
> 
> It says it only copied 2.1GB. You are runnig a 64bit OS. You reinstalld the 
> same coreutils package. You need to change the format of the package names 
> from "rpm -qa" if you want to see the architecture ("man rpm" should help you 
> figure out how).
>
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Andrey Y Shevel wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I just paid attention that utility 'dd' uses just 2 GB even I use greater
>>  block size (BS). For example
>>
>>  =====
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/TestFile-S1 bs=12GB
>>  count=1
>>  0+1 records in
>>  0+1 records out
>>  2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 15.8235 seconds, 136 MB/s
>>  ============
>>
>>  BTW,
>>
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# uname -a
>>  Linux pcfarm-10.pnpi.spb.ru 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Jan 10
>>  16:41:16 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# cat /etc/issue
>>  Scientific Linux SL release 5.7 (Boron)
>>  Kernel \r on an \m
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  I decided to reinstall coreutils:
>>
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# yum reinstall coreutils.x86_64
>>  Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
>>  Loaded plugins: kernel-module
>>  Setting up Reinstall Process
>>  Resolving Dependencies
>>  --> Running transaction check
>>  ---> Package coreutils.x86_64 0:5.97-34.el5 set to be updated
>>  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>  Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
>>  Finished Kernel Module Plugin
>>
>>  Dependencies Resolved
>>
>>  ===========================================================================================
>>  Package              Arch              Version
>>  Repository
>>          Size
>>  ===========================================================================================
>>  Reinstalling:
>>  coreutils            x86_64            5.97-34.el5               sl-base
>>          3.6 M
>>
>>  Transaction Summary
>>  ===========================================================================================
>>  Remove        0 Package(s)
>>  Reinstall     1 Package(s)
>>  Downgrade     0 Package(s)
>>
>>  Total download size: 3.6 M
>>  Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>  Downloading Packages:
>>  coreutils-5.97-34.el5.x86_64.rpm                                    | 3.6
>>  MB
>>     00:05
>>  Running rpm_check_debug
>>  Running Transaction Test
>>  Finished Transaction Test
>>  Transaction Test Succeeded
>>  Running Transaction
>>   Installing     : coreutils
>>            1/1
>>
>>  Installed:
>>   coreutils.x86_64 0:5.97-34.el5
>> 
>>
>>  Complete!
>>  =========================
>>
>>  However after that I see
>> 
>>
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# ls -l /bin/dd
>>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41464 Jul 26  2011 /bin/dd
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# rpm -q --file /bin/dd
>>  coreutils-5.97-34.el5
>> 
>>
>>  [root@pcfarm-10 ~]# rpm -qa | grep coreutils
>>  policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.8.el5
>>  policycoreutils-newrole-1.33.12-14.8.el5
>>  coreutils-5.97-34.el5
>>  policycoreutils-gui-1.33.12-14.8.el5
>> 
>>
>>  i.e. no package with name coreutils.x86_64
>>
>>  I failed to find anything on the topic in scientific linux mailing list.
>>
>>  Does somebody know about dd for 64 bit ?
>>
>>  Many thanks in advance,
>>
>>  Andrey
>> 
>
>

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