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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx