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Re: how to test disk for bad sector



On Sb, 29 aug 20, 21:03:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> Uh, I have to ask. Or maybe I came into the middle of what has become a 
> boring thread?
> 
> dd is a whole device writer, but his command line is to an existing 
> partition? His command line should not have had the 1 according to my 
> thinking.  His whole disk might be 320 gigabytes as /dev/sda, but how 
> big is sda1?

'dd' doesn't care if the destination is a whole block device, a 
partition or a regular file, it will write to whatever you ask it to.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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