On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 14:22 -0700, Rees, Kevron wrote:

> bmaptool url/to/image.img.bz2 /dev/usbStick
> 
> the "of=" will cause problems ;).
> 
> It appears faster.  Awesome!  Thanks for the tip.

It is also safer. Dd will screw your disk if you accidentally specify
the wrong one. Bmaptool will refuse the block device which is used by
anyone else (it opens in exclusive mode). Thus, you won't screw the
disk/parturition containing a mounted file-system.


-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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