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improvements to writeimage.sh #2980

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@AntiSol AntiSol commented Mar 8, 2023

Hi,

Here are some tweaks I made to writeimage.sh:

  • decompress images on the fly, no intermediate file (save some disk space / cleanup headaches)
  • use pv (if available) to show pretty progress bar for image write (otherwise show dd progress info)
  • use dd's direct/sync options, no need to sync all disks (might be marginally faster)
  • move superuser check to last (so that other args are parsed and warnings show before running elevated or prompting for password)

Hope you like! :)

msg "decompressing the .xz compressed image"
$unxz -T 0 -c "$DISK_IMG" > "${DISK_IMG%???}"
DISK_IMG=${DISK_IMG%???}
extractor=$xz
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note that according to the xz man page -T 0 isn't implemented for decompression, but if it were you could addextractopts=(-d -c -T 0) here to support that.

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