cat /dev/cdrom > mydisk.iso

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:54:31AM -0700, Shawn Tayler took 39 lines to write:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:33:13 -0700 Shawn Tayler <stayler at xmtservices.net>
> exclaimed:
> 
> > I always used bs=1k when dd'ing iso's...
> 
> I am curious about the difference when the bs=1k as opposed to what you use
> Kurt.  Is there an advantage?

Beyond reading and writing larger chunks of data at a time, not
necessarily. On the other hand, CD-ROMs have a natural block size of 2048
bytes, so perhaps reading and writing in 2k blocks is the proper way to go.
That's sheer speculation, of course.

Kurt
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