On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 01:34:31PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 06:42:50PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 31. Juli 2021, 14:05:59 CEST schrieb Nicolas George: > > > > Gunnar Gervin (12021-07-31): > > > > > > > Just: > > > > > > > > cp /path/to/file.iso /dev/sdX > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > isn't it just: > > > > > > dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/sdX > > > > It's up to taste. Some get worked up one way or the other. > > This discussion comes around cyclically :) > > > > Personally, I settled on dd, mainly because oflag=sync and > > status=progress. But I'm OK with others using copy, cat or > > whatever :) > > If you're going to use dd for this, be sure to increase the block size > from the default 512 bytes to something more appropriate in this century.
Absolutely. I actually run some tests from time to time, and the general pattern is a very flat maximum somewhere beyond 64 and below 1G. I tend to use 1M, because it's easy to memorise :) Cheers - t
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