jason@jfroebe-laptop:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/j/p bs=1M count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 2097152 bytes (2.1 MB) copied, 0.112971 s, 18.6 MB/s jason@jfroebe-laptop:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/j/p bs=1M count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 2097152 bytes (2.1 MB) copied, 0.113488 s, 18.5 MB/s