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Old 02-07-2003, 10:19 AM   #1
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Question using dd...


i have a question about the dd utility...

say I have some piece of storage hardware... say I fdisk it and then make an ext3 filesystem out of it...

then I dd a large file to this piece of hardware....

does using the dd utility totally negate/overwrite the filesystem I just put in place?
 
Old 02-07-2003, 10:32 AM   #2
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dd writes in raw blocks so if you write directly to the storage device then it will ignore the filesystem. You can however mount the device first and then dd to a file on the filesystem.
 
Old 02-07-2003, 11:03 AM   #3
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thanks man...
 
  


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