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dd Essentials
Basic Command Show Status 6246367232 bytes (6.2 GB, 5.8 GiB) copied, 318 s, 19.7 MB/s Size bs bs=BYTES read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512); N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =10001000, M =10241024,…
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How to Backup a Hard Disk Drive Independant of Filesystem
I recently wanted to install Linux onto a USB thumb drive. The laptop was running Windows 8.1. Hardware Required Large Hard Disk Drive (At least double the capacity of the drive you want to backup) USB Thumb Drive (At least 2GB) Software Required Desired Linux distribution ISO image Universal USB installer Software How to Do it…