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authorsevan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2017-03-30 02:16:34 +0000
committersevan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2017-03-30 02:16:34 +0000
commit927492467ac7c1782268de65947bd7568963ef42 (patch)
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MFC r270771
Add canonical population of a disk / thumb drive from an image example.
-rw-r--r--bin/dd/dd.15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bin/dd/dd.1 b/bin/dd/dd.1
index 0541df8..c81e631 100644
--- a/bin/dd/dd.1
+++ b/bin/dd/dd.1
@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ To create an image of a Mode-1 CD-ROM, which is a commonly used format
for data CD-ROM disks, use a block size of 2048 bytes:
.Pp
.Dl "dd if=/dev/acd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048"
+.Pp
+Write a filesystem image to a memory stick, padding the end with zeros,
+if necessary, to a 1MiB boundary:
+.Pp
+.Dl "dd if=memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=noerror,sync"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cp 1 ,
.Xr mt 1 ,
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