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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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