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There are several excellent reasons why dd is also called the "disk destroyer". I lost data once, because it was the wrong /dev/sd* in the command line, where B
by selfhoster11 5y ago
There are several excellent reasons why dd is also called the "disk destroyer". I lost data once, because it was the wrong /dev/sd* in the command line, where Balena Etcher makes it harder to mistake the target devices. Besides, a progress indicator is always nice even if it doesn't speed anything up just by being present.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Is my attitude coming across as smug? Am I being punished for being a critic of a classic Unix utility? To be clear, dd is a fantastically flexible tool, but there are tools that better and more safely serve a subset of its functionality. Right tool for the job and all that.