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Would that seriously work?

• skykooler 10y ago
  Yep! See this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/751193/what-is-the-difference-in-using-cp-and-dd-when-cloning-usb-sticks http://askubuntu.com/questions/751193/what-is-the-difference... Basically, you can use cp wherever you use dd, as long as you're not changing any low-level parameters (e.g. starting 500 bytes into the file or something).
• pilif 10y ago
  Yes. Yes it does. Reminds me of a Sunday evening in the late 90ies when I stopped working as root all the time: cp backup.tar.bz /dev/sda Nowadays I would know enough to at least get the contents of the backup.tar.bz back. Back then, this was the end of both my / partition (or any other partition) and the backup of my music collection. Still, that didn't end my love affair with Unix. It did make me a whole lot more careful though.
  • jacquesm 10y ago
    > cp backup.tar.bz /dev/sda Ouch. That just hurts seeing that line.