Re: tar a flash drive

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On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 21:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 9/4/19 9:16 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> > On  4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
> > > with no apparent advantage.
> > A lot less time consuming if you use the "bs=" option.  Haven't seen anyone
> > mention that; I believe the default is still the old Unix 512b, painful.
> 
> Very good point.  And, yes, the default is still 512.

For a USB drive it probably doesn't make much difference. Output will
be buffered and speed is limited by the USB interface.

poc
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