From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 14:22:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FCF96C for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E818FC16 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail.dweimer.net [192.168.5.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAJEMDcp015828 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:22:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:22:13 -0600 From: dweimer To: Subject: Re: dd command: BSD analog of =?UTF-8?Q?conv=3Dfsync=3F?= Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <66.88.25607.0573AA05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <66.88.25607.0573AA05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:22:20 -0000 On 2012-11-19 07:42, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> In the last episode (Nov 18), Thomas Mueller said: >> > What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? > >> > Command in question is > >> > dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync > >> > This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is >> replaced by the >> > actual device node; also I believe bs=8M, good for Linux, would be >> bs=8m >> > in FreeBSD. > >> > I don't really know if "conv=fsync" is necessary, but that's what >> was >> > advised in the GNOME test-drive download page. > >> It isn't. Writing to raw devices in FreeBSD immediately writes to >> the >> physical media. No flushing is needed. > >> -- >> Dan Nelson >> dnelson@allantgroup.com > > I was able to dd GNOME-3.6.0.iso to that USB stick, a discontinued > Kingston > Data Traveler model that was inaccessible to NetBSD until they fixed > that > USB bug recently. I got CAM SCSI error messages in FreeBSD, couldn't > access > the USB stick in the normal way, but apparently dd worked. These > particular > Kingston Data Travelers worked normally with previous builds of > FreeBSD. > > That USB stick proved bootable, so I got a test drive of GNOME 3.6.0. > > I had a difficult time finding my way around the graphical > interface,. When > I got to a command prompt, I found first there was no nslookup, and > then found > there was no man command. I thought these were a standard part of > (quasi-)Unix > OSes. I didn't really get a good impression. Also, the print/text > was very > small, a recipe for eyestrain. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Some Linux distributions tried doing away with nslookup in favor of dig a while back, most have added it back in though. However it looks like you found something that hasn't put it back in. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/