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The I/O size is a reason why it's better to use cp than dd to copy an ISO to a USB stick. cp automatically selects an I/O size which should yield good performance, while dd's default is extremely small and it's necessary to specify a sane value manually (e.g. bs=1M).
With "everything" being a file on Linux, dd isn't really special for simply cloning a disk. The habit of using dd is still quite strong for me.
Do cp capture the raw bits like dd does?
Not saying that its useful in the case you're describing but that's always been the reason I use it. When I want every bit on a disk copied to another disks, even the things with no meta data present.
As long as you copy from the device file (
/dev/whatever), you will get "the raw bits", regardless of whether you usedd,cp, or evencat.That makes sense. Thanks!