Fwd: dd -bs=BYTES read and write up to BYTES at a time system -invalid number 1m #### dd if=FreeBSD-11-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M conv=sync

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:18:33 +0100, swjatoslaw gerus wrote:
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> dd  help  ....dd -bs=BYTES  read and write up to BYTES at a time 
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>   system -invalid  number 1m   ####

On systems that do not support size suffixes (such as
Linux dd might), you need to "manually multiply", for
example:

	dd if=<image> of=<device> bs=1024k

Or, if the "k" suffix isn't supported,

	dd if=<image> of=<device> bs=1048576

Note that this unit has to be converted as 2^10 = 2014
(instead of 10^3 = 1000). See "man dd" to check what
your version of dd implements.



> fdisk -l   
> system  dev/sdb1      (new Sandisk ultrafit 16 gb) 
> 
>  dd if=FreeBSD-11-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M 
>  conv=sync
> system -invalid  number 1m   ####

The command is correct, just adjust the bs= parameter accordingly.





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