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TheFool ,
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I really don’t get why I should use anything else than dd

julianh ,

Fear?

TheFool ,
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jaxiiruff ,

Not everyone likes to use commands for something as trivial as this, its nice to press a couple buttons and wait for it to be done vs learning how dd works and what arguments to use etc.

foudinfo ,

My favorite way to create a boot media is simply to use cat. No arguments, no shenanigans just a cat into the device :

cat debian.iso > /dev/sda

neodc ,
@neodc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Replace cat with pv to get a progress bar for free

Ghoelian ,

iirc there was a reason you should use dd instead of directly copying the data, I think something to do with device block alignment or something?

foudinfo ,

That could be possible but for the moment I didn’t encouter any problem with cat. I think I’m going to stick with it for the time being.

qjkxbmwvz ,

One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root — can’t run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

foudinfo ,

Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…

qjkxbmwvz ,

Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd …, because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)

foudinfo ,

Oh right, my bad x) I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.

lord_ryvan ,

Not everyone likes to install compicated graphical software which does a thousand and one things it shouldn’t do just to copy files to an external drive

GustavoM ,
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“What, you guys don’t spend money in several external ssds?”

– this guy

ReveredOxygen ,
@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works avatar

What? You can use dd to read/write any block storage device (or file)

jaxiiruff ,

Fedora Media Writer is the best, I hardly use BalenaEtcher but its good too incase the former doesnt work

Interstellar_1 ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Does it work for any distro other than fedora tho?

jaxiiruff ,

Yeah I wish it had a different name but it works for every distro via flatpak. I like using it that way but im sure it works well as a package for most distros.

possiblylinux127 ,

It even works on Windows

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