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Indeed I was mistaken about the shell, sorry about that. The redirect method I forgot a really long time ago and my memory made it into something it was not. I
by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Indeed I was mistaken about the shell, sorry about that. The redirect method I forgot a really long time ago and my memory made it into something it was not.
In that case I guess dd does call a sync() on every output block? Because it's definitely slower and the LED pattern on a USB stick is also much more 'flashy' when using 512 bytes.
- LukeShu 4y ago> In that case I guess dd does call a sync() on every output block? Only if you tell `dd` `oflag=sync` or `oflag=dsync`.
- kreetx 4y agoFor context, choosing the block size has implications on the speed at which data gets written to a USB stick, so not being able to tune that on cat can be a problem.