Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:50:57 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd question Message-ID: <56073D71.5060404@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK3UOEfKSfSjbdcH%2BR2jaU9=XVBEg%2B%2Bjn5VCbiiUkLF_Tg@mail.gmail.com> References: <5606A4FF.4090105@hiwaay.net> <CA%2BtpaK3UOEfKSfSjbdcH%2BR2jaU9=XVBEg%2B%2Bjn5VCbiiUkLF_Tg@mail.gmail.com>
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> Well first off I'd tell dd to use a bigger bs like 1m. I'll second this. I think the default for mos *nixs is 512 byte blocks, which is painfully slow. You need to manually specify bs=1M. It's also possibly the stick is just dying, but try the blocksize first.
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