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> I couldn't for the life of me tell you what dd stands for. Traditionally, according to folklore? "Delete disk" or "destroy data". (Because it was commonly us
by ekidd 10mo ago
> I couldn't for the life of me tell you what dd stands for.
Traditionally, according to folklore? "Delete disk" or "destroy data". (Because it was commonly used to write raw disk blocks.)
- QuantumNomad_ 10mo agoAnother, similar name it is sometimes jokingly referred to under is “destroyer of disks”. https://web.archive.org/web/20081206105906/http://www.noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks https://web.archive.org/web/20081206105906/http://www.noah.o...
- sweetjuly 10mo agoI always assumed part of the "data destroyer" folklore was from people flipping if/of by accident and destroying their data :)
- opan 10mo agoI thought the more common mistake with dd was picking the wrong disk to write to (especially when using /dev/sdc type naming instead of /dev/disk/by-id/whatever naming). Flipping source/dest and overwriting data is a problem I associate with the tar command.
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- hoherd 10mo agoI always thought it was "disk dump"