Re: dd and mbr

Reply: Steve O'Hara-Smith : "Re: dd and mbr"
In reply to: Greg 'groggy' Lehey : "Re: dd and mbr"
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From: Roderick <hruodr_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:32:26 UTC

On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> As others have suggested, use bs=64k.  Otherwise dd does an IO for
> every single sector.  The speedup is really in the order of 100x.

I used bs=1m. I hope that was also OK. In any case faster than without it.