* On 2025 03 Aug 05:31 -0500, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Sun Aug 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM BST, tomas wrote: > > I always recommend to add "oflag=sync" to dd itself: this way it > > syncs as it goes and you don't have to wait for a (potentially > > long) time for sync to "come back". > > > > Together with "status=progress" you get a visual feedback on how > > things are going (without having to kill -USR1 the thing all the > > time :) > > A bugbear of mine is people recommending `dd` and using it without > any customisation e.g. `dd if=iso of=/device`, which is harder to > type than `cp iso /device`, and runs slower. Curiously, I recall trying "cp" in the past and not having satisfactory results. > Your suggested `dd` flags demonstrate why it can be a better choice > than simple `cp` for this use-case. Thanks! Meanwhile "dd" has always worked for me. I'll have to remember Tomas' recommendation for "oflag=sync" for the next time I write an image, though that might be a while. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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