đź’ľ Writing .img images on SD-card
When i need to write an image on a sd-card, lately i choose pv instead dd in linux. Why? There is no need to bother with switches to achieve maximum writing speed of the sd-card and have progress bar, so i can know how much is left to finish.
PV method: On most distros it is not installed by default, so you have to do it:
sudo apt-get install pv
Then you can write images with the following:
pv < /path-to/image-file.img > /dev/sdc
*** be sure to modify the /dev/sdc path at the end to your sd-card’s path DD method: There is no need to install, it’s integrated on almost every linux distro.
Same command as above but with dd looks like:
dd bs=4M if=/path-to/image-file.img of=/dev/sdc
*** be sure to modify the /dev/sdc path at the end to your sd-card’s path
You can adjust the “speed” of writing with the bs=4M option, where lets say the 4M is the rating of your sd-card. So for example i have a Sandisk Ultra-something 16GB Class 10 sd-card and i’m using 10M as option. Roughly… More like 8M was stable if i remember good ;)