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  • @iopq
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    721 year ago

    You used something called disk destroyer, and you just found out why

    • @kbotc
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      -21 year ago

      Disk Duplicator is a destroyer? Man, I used to image so many drives with DD back in my helpdesk days…

      • Affine Connection
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        1 year ago

        dd does not stand for “disk duplicator”. That’s a modern backronymization that doesn’t reflect the original general usage of the command which is to “convert and copy”. Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.

        • @kbotc
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          11 year ago

          fine Data Definition.