Re: [tlug] Tip of the Day: "ghosting" a machine with nc and dd

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 17/07/07, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:22:56 +0900 tlug@example.com wrote:
>
> > One more note: I usually specify the block size when I use the dd command.
> >       Example: dd bs=1MB if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
[...]
> Nope. With disks you want multiples of 512 bytes (sector size).
> With linux doing the disk handling you want multiples of PAGE_SIZE
> (which is 4096 on most plattforms). So, use "1M" instead.

Is it necessary to set the blocksize at all with dd? I have not found
so in modern Linux, but I would like to know if you chaps feel
differently.

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Cheers,
Josh