svn commit: r270771 - head/bin/dd

[Warner Losh]

Author: imp
Date: Thu Aug 28 21:30:39 2014
New Revision: 270771
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/270771

Log:
  Add canonical population of a disk / thumb drive from an image
  example.

Modified:
  head/bin/dd/dd.1

Modified: head/bin/dd/dd.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/dd/dd.1	Thu Aug 28 21:27:37 2014	(r270770)
+++ head/bin/dd/dd.1	Thu Aug 28 21:30:39 2014	(r270771)
@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ To create an image of a Mode-1 CD-ROM, w
 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 ,