On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 08:08:34AM +0100, Pierre Dupond wrote: > I try to execute the command "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ld0f bs=2m" (or > "bs=32k" but > this make no difference).
You want of=/dev/rld0f here. Also I dimly remember gnu dd not flushing the output or something unless some special option is given, but that should not make a real difference for huge transfers. Martin