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. Your suggested `dd` flags demonstrate why it can be a better choice than simple `cp` for this use-case. Thanks! -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ [email protected] 🔗 https://jmtd.net
