[NBLUG/talk] floppy recovery

steven smith sjs at sonic.net
Fri May 23 16:36:03 PDT 2008


Troy Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:08:04PM -0700, steven smith wrote:
> 
> dd works on files, and like most good *nix tools, it doesn't care what that
> file actually is. 
> 
> So you can (and in this case, it's best) use it directly on the raw device.
> Your example above (/dev/sd) is using the raw device for input.  You can
> also write directly to a raw device, which is how I painfully learned about
> dd's file agnosticism. ;-)
> 
> -t
> 
Good to know.  Thanks!
Steve S.



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