In message <[email protected]>, Polytropon <[email protected]>wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:34 -0800, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected] >om> wrote: >> But I have one question. The author sez to do this: >> >> dd if=8.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync >> >> I just want to know what the effect of conv=sync and why it might be >> necessary. >... >it appears that the data is ensured to be "properly >aligned" with a possibly different block size on the >source or target media. As far as I remember, not >giving the bs= argument would result in a default >block size of 512 bytes which may - but don't ask >me why - lead to a non-functioning target USB stick. Actually, I already _did_ ask why. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
