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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users dd bytesize Post 302515137 by programAngel on Tuesday 19th of April 2011 08:00:10 AM
Old 04-19-2011
dd bytesize

I read the manual about the dd and the example and I have seen the use of the bs option, the byte size.

However how can you know that you need to use it and how can you know what size to give it?

like in wwikipedia they give the following:
Quote:
Using dd to duplicate one hard disk partition to another hard disk:
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=4096 conv=noerror
but why 4096 and why mention it at all
 
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