bs=1 is a recipe for waiting far longer than you have to because of the overhead of the system calls. Better bs=N count=1
That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file. In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.
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That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file. In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.