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dd is a traditional utility for binary data copies

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I backed up my old device using dd and am trying to access its contents. The following has been attempted: usr@pop-os:~/Backups$ sudo mkdir /mnt/<dir> mount -o loop <file>.image /mnt/<...
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This post might be a bit redundant, but I am trying to back up my SSD using dd. Many (if not all) of the guides out there for this tool save the drive per partition. However, I would like to save it ...
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General overview I try to install the Mobian OS on my Pinephone thought the dd’s method as described in the official Debian documentation. Basically, I have to make a dd from an image to a partition ...
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how to copy a HD to another if the CPU is freezing after a few GB ? I had to copy w11 of a friend notebook from a 128GB nvme to a 1TB nvme. I put nvne128gb in a usb adapter and the nvme1TB inside the ...
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I attempted to write a file to an ext4 voulume on an external USB hard disk drive: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=10 iflag=fullblock oflag=direct dd: failed to open 'file': Invalid argument ...
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I am running the command dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md7 status=progress. It started very slow at 4 MB/s but now has dropped to 1 MB/s. This is a standard SATA disk that was running perfectly ...
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I used gzip to compress an image which is quite huge still. dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=1M | gzip -c -9 > sda2.dd.img.gz then I changed the partitioning of the Drive because I wanted to install Linux. And ...
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I used dd to write the SystemRescue ( https://www.system-rescue.org/ ) image to a USB stick drive. I used this USB stick to boot into Computer#1 and then used dd to clone the internal system drive to ...
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I'm having a stream of binary data coming in via stdin which I want to write to a block device /dev/mmcblk0p2. The size of the input stream is arbitrary and since it's coming in via stdin, it's not ...
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Why is GNU Coreutil's dd unable to read /proc/pid/mem? PHP is able to read it, check this: $ dd if=/proc/357668/mem bs=100 skip=93824992231424 count=1 iflag=fullblock dd: /proc/357668/mem: cannot skip ...
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Say I have an .iso file from this dd command: dd if=/dev/sda of=./image.iso In the case where the drive contained multiple partitions, how could I say, only mount the second one?
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I'm using this pipeline to write an image file to drive $drive: wget -o logfile -O - https://route/to/image.gz | \ gunzip -c | \ dd of="$drive" bs=4M conv=fdatasync 2>/...
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I want to move a dual boot Windows 7 and Linux Mint installation to a larger drive. Right now they exist on a 500GB Samsung SSD. Windows has 289.84 Gib, Linux has 175.42 Gib. I was thinking of dd or ...
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I use busybox (and buildroot). How to use status? For example dd if=disk.img of=/dev/sda bs=4M conv=fsync status=progress
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I'm trying to perform a simple disk benchmark (throughput) of my ZFS filesystem using dd. Here is my command: dd if=/tank/media/video/largefile.mp4 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000 However, it finishes ...
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