On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Richard Meyer wrote: > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/mnt/downloads/xxxxx.iso ===== expect this to Is there any reason for using dd (with its evil non-unix syntax) rather than plain old 'cp' ? (Or cat even.) I see that a lot, sometimes specifying block size, but it doesnt seem to make any difference, at least with modern kernels.