Comment 1 for bug 64527

A couple of questions for you?
- What version of ubuntu are you using?
- 32 or 64 bit? or powerpc?
- Does it work if you just do the following in your home directory, as you?

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=blank.img bs=1k count=720

I was able to run the command without any problems on i386 and powerpc, as root and as a user.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/blank.img bs=1k count=720
720+0 records in
720+0 records out
737280 bytes (737 kB) copied, 0.010394 seconds, 70.9 MB/s