On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:31:53PM -0400, Gordon Turner wrote: > I have three questions for the dd savants out there, consider an image being > dd'd that is created with a dd statement like: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=imageFileName.img bs=512 count=1014049
It's quite silly to fill up your disk will zero bytes. Use this instead: dd if=/dev/null of=imageFileName.img bs=512 seek=1014049 > Question 3. Writing the image at 'bs=512' can take a looong time, is there > any risk of corruption with using 'bs=20m' instead, or will this mess up the > output? I don't think so.
