On 9/4/19 6:16 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
> Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
> with no apparent advantage.
A lot less time consuming if you use the "bs=" option. Haven't seen
anyone
mention that; I believe the default is still the old Unix 512b, painful.
Cheers,
I use the bs=4096, but can't remember why I picked that
number exactly. Might have been from my Exobyte tape days,
but I don't remember