On 8/7/2013 2:55 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
# cp image.iso /dev/sdX # sync
And that's it! No more 'dd',
Well, dd is cp on steroids. There is no difference between "dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdX" and "cp image.iso /dev/sdX" as long as no special alignment or block size is needed.
I think that this is a largely unknown feature of CP (or Cat) and you have to dig pretty deeply in the man page to find even the hint that it would work. In fact a device as a target for cp is really only addressed in man 1p cp because it seems to be a largely forgotten posix feature, where by if the destination function doesn't exist cp tries to obtain a file descriptor via an open function. See item 3b in that man page. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org