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.

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