cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux@programming.dev · 9 days agoHow to use dd in Linux without destroying your diskopensource.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13
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minus-squareseaQueue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·9 days agoI use dd regularly to back up and restore disk images. It’s not particularly hard to use but like sudo rm -rf it absolutely will eat whatever you point it at so you need to understand what the command does and pay attention.
I use dd regularly to back up and restore disk images. It’s not particularly hard to use but like
sudo rm -rf
it absolutely will eat whatever you point it at so you need to understand what the command does and pay attention.