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I think it's quite unfortunate that the command line tools seem to have gotten frozen in stone. People barely use dd for anything but copying disk images -- bu
by dale_glass 4y ago
I think it's quite unfortunate that the command line tools seem to have gotten frozen in stone.
People barely use dd for anything but copying disk images -- but it's kind of a clunky tool for that. It's got a weird unusual syntax, it requires knowing weird arcane details like what size sectors a device likes working with, and it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it.
You'd think that after decades somebody would have made a handy tool for actually writing disk images as an end user. It could use more standard arguments, do sanity checks for destination device contents and mounted filesystems, and automatically determine the optimal block size for the destination device.
It's almost like if we decided that a chisel is the normal tool to use as a flat screw driver.
- bluedino 4y ago> You'd think that after decades somebody would have made a handy tool for actually writing disk images as an end user. There are lots of tools out there for creating disk images/boot disks etc.
- dale_glass 4y agoI mean as a standard tool in general usage. Somehow after decades of installing various distros, dd is still the standard thing to use.
- bluedino 4y agoUbuntu's docs suggest using Startup Disk Creator https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#4-iso-and-usb-selection https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#4-... Fedora recommends using Fedora Media Writer, and other tools like Unetbootin are very popular.