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Probably not used as much by programmers, but it's a great swiss army knife type tool for copying stuff around with more finegrained control. Sysadmins use it a
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
Probably not used as much by programmers, but it's a great swiss army knife type tool for copying stuff around with more finegrained control. Sysadmins use it a ton. Probably more often through scripts than directly.
The nice thing with ^T versus status=progress is that ^T will work even when dd was invoked from some script that you don't necessarily want to edit, etc.
- animal-hash 3y agoIt's also a quick and dirty tool for wiping out partition headers on a disk.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoYeah, and backing up the MBR, creating files of a given size like keys, yadda yadda. Anyone getting nitty gritty with storage media, legacy hardware etc, should know their dd. I first came to love it learning how to fix my bootloader and undo all sorts of horrible things I'd done to my system when I was a teenager exploring Linux well over a decade ago. I also worked in repair for a while and there it was indispensable for data recovery purposes along with its cousin ddrescue. Now I just use it for my constant tinkering needs.
- garaetjjte 3y agowipefs -af
- lost_tourist 3y agorecovered a few usb drives this way they wouldn't be recovered any other way (or even recognized beyond a /dev/* entry)
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