Hi, >
> > * I believe some kind of `sync' must be issued with `dd' too,
> > perhaps with oflags or something, isn't it?
>
> I never experienced the need to do anything more than plain `dd`. Did
> you? I know Alan is a big `dd` fan, so I'm putting him in explicit
> copy as well so he speak out.
> No idea. I just use `dd <options> && sync`.