Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD?

• progress

  10 8,195 5.2 C

  Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv)

pv's progress display is very useful in many contexts, it has been one if the first things I make sure is installed on a new system for years, though I have recently come across https://github.com/Xfennec/progress which is brilliant for some times when pv is not an option or when you want to watch the status of several things which aren't convenient to arrange together via tmux/byobu. Or just for when you forget to use PV and don't want to cancel to change the command.

• usbimager

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The “simple GUI” tool I keep seeing pushed Maker forums is Etcher. I needed to flash something from my work PC so I gave it a shot- 90MB of Electron bloat, while offering no extra functionality over dd . Plus, dd doesn’t advertise to me during the flash, and certainly doesn’t phone home to balena.

For folks just getting started or more comfortable with a GUI, I’d recommend giving USBimager[0] a look. It does exactly what’d you’d expect based on the name, it performant, and they have native apps. No affiliation, just a fan of a KISS app done right.

[0] https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager

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• random-tools

  1 2 1.8 C

  Random collection of specialized unix utilities, in most cases probably not useful to anybody.

Many years ago I wrote https://github.com/adh/random-tools/blob/master/byc.c which tends to be the tool that I use for copying images from/to block device (it was originally meant for something else which is why you need -p for it to do the right thing).

• Popsicle

  13 600 6.5 Rust

  Multiple USB File Flasher (by pop-os)

  

While we're all making recommendations, I really like Popsicle[0]. Does what it says, and nothing more.

[0] https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle

• nocache

  4 527 4.3 C

  minimize caching effects

Also check https://github.com/Feh/nocache

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