Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time

2009-12-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:11:27 +, Stroller wrote: Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite significantly. Thank you. I have always wondered what the optimal bs might be. And why -

[gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time

2009-12-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Dec 2009, at 10:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite significantly. Thank you. I have always wondered what the optimal bs might be. And why - could you possibly explain that, please? Is bs=4096 best for all disk-based

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time

2009-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:11:27 +, Stroller wrote: Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite significantly. Thank you. I have always wondered what the optimal bs might be. And why - could you possibly explain that, please? Is bs=4096 best for all