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I use pv directly to write files to devices using pv <image.iso >/dev/sdb

• Retr0id 4y ago
  > The progress meter here is mostly meaningless. You'll see the initial progress go very quickly (because you're writing to in-memory cache), and once it's "done", you'll have to wait some amount of additional time for a final `sync` to complete (and if you forget to do that, you might remove the drive while writes are still in progress).