David Wright composed on 2024-09-01 12:06 (UTC-0500):
> On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 17:20:41 (+0200), Hans wrote:
>>> So your command line would read …
>>>
>>> # … …
>> I believe, instead of using dd for copying to the usb-stick, one might want
>> to
>> use dcfldd for it.
>> dcfldd is en enhanced version of dd with hashsum check during copy. It was
>> created for forensic matters, where no data may have gone lost.
> Same response: please write me a command line, but in this case
> for writing the stick rather than just checking it.
# /usr/bin/ddrescue amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdj
# apt-get install gddrescue
...
# which ddrescue
/usr/bin/ddrescue
# apt-cache show gddrescue
...
Description-en: GNU data recovery tool
The gddrescue tool copies data from one file or block device
(hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data
in case of read errors.
...
#
ddrescue automatically provides nice status reporting while it works.
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