Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:22:13 -0600 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dd command: BSD analog of =?UTF-8?Q?conv=3Dfsync=3F?= Message-ID: <c0f32263965d10a096ea619868eae575@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <66.88.25607.0573AA05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <66.88.25607.0573AA05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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On 2012-11-19 07:42, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> In the last episode (Nov 18), Thomas Mueller said: >> > What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? > >> > Command in question is > >> > dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync > >> > This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is >> replaced by the >> > actual device node; also I believe bs=8M, good for Linux, would be >> bs=8m >> > in FreeBSD. > >> > I don't really know if "conv=fsync" is necessary, but that's what >> was >> > advised in the GNOME test-drive download page. > >> It isn't. Writing to raw devices in FreeBSD immediately writes to >> the >> physical media. No flushing is needed. > >> -- >> Dan Nelson >> dnelson@allantgroup.com > > I was able to dd GNOME-3.6.0.iso to that USB stick, a discontinued > Kingston > Data Traveler model that was inaccessible to NetBSD until they fixed > that > USB bug recently. I got CAM SCSI error messages in FreeBSD, couldn't > access > the USB stick in the normal way, but apparently dd worked. These > particular > Kingston Data Travelers worked normally with previous builds of > FreeBSD. > > That USB stick proved bootable, so I got a test drive of GNOME 3.6.0. > > I had a difficult time finding my way around the graphical > interface,. When > I got to a command prompt, I found first there was no nslookup, and > then found > there was no man command. I thought these were a standard part of > (quasi-)Unix > OSes. I didn't really get a good impression. Also, the print/text > was very > small, a recipe for eyestrain. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Some Linux distributions tried doing away with nslookup in favor of dig a while back, most have added it back in though. However it looks like you found something that hasn't put it back in. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/
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