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[-] kbotc@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

fine Data Definition.

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