shamelessly stolen from nixCraft on mastodon
Your USB is probably named ‘/’ or ‘~’ so give that a go.
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You used something called disk destroyer, and you just found out why
Disk Duplicator is a destroyer? Man, I used to image so many drives with DD back in my helpdesk days…
dddoes 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.fine Data Definition.
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You might as well call
cpthe same thingcp source "`realpath destination`"
That’s why it called dd: don’t dare
Anyone who hits enter on a dd command without triple-checking it gets exactly what they deserve.
I always use the status=progress argument.
That ain’t why that light isn’t blinking.
Because this USB stick doesn’t have light
Be me
Want to install archlinux just to try it
Accidentally installed archlinux live environment on my main hard disk using dd
Goofoyou, goofoyou!
