Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)
by takeda on Sunday January 08, 2017 @03:50PM
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Is there a benefit to use dd over cat in this case?
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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)
by circuit_breaker on Sunday January 08, 2017 @06:43PM
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You could use it to rate limit... or arbitrarily set block sizes per use case. I've used it for the former when doing 'over the wire' backups through ssh