USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:42:48PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 15 Jun:
> > Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and
> > see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd.
> 
> I have here an image with partitions in it, which is why I use DD. cp
> can't help me, sadly.

Why not cp?
cp image /dev/sdX
should work with no problem. Indeed you won't have control on the block
size, but I can't think of other important options of dd that you'll
miss.
-- 
Didi