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Re: Is it safe to replace dd?


From: David Both
Subject: Re: Is it safe to replace dd?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:25:05 -0500
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I have never experienced that problem. They always boot. But I never specify a block size greater than 4096 in any event.

On 1/20/20 10:46 PM, microsoft gaofei wrote:
<<dd if=archlinux-2020.01.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=2048

Works perfect every time.>> 
https://www.kali.org/docs/usb/kali-linux-live-usb-install/ . It says large block size 
may produce unbootable USB.

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