On 03/02/2017 10:02 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:06:52PM -0500, fred roller wrote:
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=os.img bs=1M count=3210
I would recommend bs=512 to keep the block sizes the same though not a huge
diff just seems to be happier for some reason and add status=progress if
you would like to monitor how it is doing. Seems the command you have
should work otherwise.
The dd blocksize has nothing to do with the disk sector size.
the disk sector size is the number of bytes in a minimal read/write
operation (because the physical drive can't manipulate anything smaller).
the dd blocksize is merely the number of bytes read/written in a
single read/write operation. (or not bytes, but K, or Kb, or other
depending on the options you use.)
It makes sense for the bs option in dd to be a multiple of the actual
disk block/sector size, but isn't even required. if you did dd with a
block size of, e.g., 27, it would still work, it'd just be stupidly slow.
Kind of wondered about that.
So the blocks reported by fdisk is what I should use as the count, as
that matches the drive's real block size?
thanks
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