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 -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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