On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:42:48PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 15 Jun: > > Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and > > see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd. > > I have here an image with partitions in it, which is why I use DD. cp > can't help me, sadly.
Why not cp? cp image /dev/sdX should work with no problem. Indeed you won't have control on the block size, but I can't think of other important options of dd that you'll miss. -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
