How to use dd in Linux without destroying your disk

Posted by bob on Jul 5, 2018 7:08 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By David Clinton
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Whether you're trying to rescue data from a dying storage drive, backing up archives to remote storage, or making a perfect copy of an active partition somewhere else, you'll need to know how to safely and reliably copy drives and filesystems. Fortunately, dd is a simple and powerful image-copying tool that's been around, well, pretty much forever. And in all that time, nothing's come along that does the job better.

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