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
dnel...@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
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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.
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Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
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