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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 month agoIf 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
minus-squareeutampieri@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month 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 cat: cat /dev/sda | pv | cat > /dev/sdb 😂
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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