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usb formatting (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You used something called disk destroyer, and you just found out why

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

fine Data Definition.