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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

If you pipe, dd is the wrong tool anyway. Replace with cp or cat. dd is a fine scalpel but a bad shovel.

Useless use of dd

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    In both these cases, dd serves no real purpose. It’s purely a superstitious charm trying to ensure safe passage of the data. You can see how silly this is when you replace dd with the functionally equivalent catcat /dev/sda | pv | cat > /dev/sdb

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