On 28/03/2013 8:10 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Question:
Why exactly is "conv=sync" is there?
I found this on http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/dd.1.asp
If you specified conv=sync and this input block is smaller than the
specified input block size, dd pads it to the specified size with null
bytes. When you also specify a block or unblock conversion, dd uses
spaces instead of null bytes.
So the last block of output gets padded with 0x00 at the end to fill the
input block size (from bs=...)
Question:
Why exactly is the "bs=10240" is there? Wouldn't the default of 512
do just as well?
It would, but then you would have FILESIZE/512 reads and writes instead
of FILESIZE/10240 reads and writes - 20 times more.
The end result is the same, but the large bs makes the operation go faster.
I routinely use bs=655360 simply because it is a big number divisible by
512, which I can easily remember. 512000 would do just as well, though...
Danny
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