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27.12.2016 17.00, Valeri Galtsev kirjoitti:
>
> On Tue, December 27, 2016 6:57 am, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
>> Needs to be
>>
>> dd ... bs=1000000
>
> Could it be
>
> dd ... bs=1048576

Yeah, better, but harder to remember :P Shouldn't really affect 
functionality much, since the main speed-up comes from the larger transfers.