On 9/4/19 6:16 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko ed.greshko@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