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    Performance especially; write a partition image to an SD card, for example, using dd bs=4m iflag=fullblock vs dd bs=1111 and notice the substantially higher data rates the former will give you. This is because the former aligns with natural block sizes on the SD card, while the latter requires the SD controller to do much reading, copying and reflashing to write partial physical blocks. The importance of fullblock should not be underestimated, by the way, as without it, bs is only a maximum and partial reads could lead to persistent subsequent misalignments. Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 4:12