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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-28 21:30:39 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-28 21:30:39 +0000
commit56fd12843318d133446a62e51586d6dbee2756bc (patch)
treeb58d1a4a126eb27d5e48434cae7512c7b3221254 /bin/dd
parent4d19f4ad1fbf6bbe78f9b23b0ba4bfdc0e9421f2 (diff)
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diff --git a/bin/dd/dd.1 b/bin/dd/dd.1
index 0541df8864d56..c81e63161f69e 100644
--- a/bin/dd/dd.1
+++ b/bin/dd/dd.1
@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ To create an image of a Mode-1 CD-ROM, which is a commonly used format
for data CD-ROM disks, use a block size of 2048 bytes:
.Pp
.Dl "dd if=/dev/acd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048"
+.Pp
+Write a filesystem image to a memory stick, padding the end with zeros,
+if necessary, to a 1MiB boundary:
+.Pp
+.Dl "dd if=memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=noerror,sync"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cp 1 ,
.Xr mt 1 ,