On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:40:55PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > >[Steve McIntyre] >> (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) > >While it is refreshing to see "cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX" instead of >the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth >that you need to use dd any time you're reading or writing block >devices), I think "cp" is even more straightforward. Bonus: you can >easily run it with sudo. ("sudo cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX" does not >do what a novice might think.)
You *can* do that, yes. The major win with dd onto a raw device is that you can specify the block size. For most USB sticks, using a block size of 4MB or so is going to be *much* faster than using the default for dd (512 bytes) or cp (10 KB IIRC). cat using the shell redirection is often going to be using a small size (1 page?). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120515231849.ga3...@einval.com
