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dd: align page throughout the platforms (#12919)

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Sebastiaan Speck
2024-06-10 19:27:34 +02:00
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- Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such as `archlinux-xxx.iso`):
`dd if={{path/to/file.iso}} of=/dev/{{usb_drive}}`
`dd if={{path/to/file.iso}} of={{/dev/usb_drive}}`
- Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MiB block size and flush writes before the command terminates:
`dd bs=4194304 conv=fsync if=/dev/{{source_drive}} of=/dev/{{dest_drive}}`
`dd bs=4194304 conv=fsync if={{/dev/source_drive}} of={{/dev/dest_drive}}`
- Generate a file with a specific number of random bytes by using kernel random driver:
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
`dd bs={{1024}} count={{1000000}} if=/dev/zero of={{path/to/file_1GB}}`
- Create a system backup and save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping `if` and `of`):
- Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping `if` and `of`), and show the progress:
`dd if={{/dev/drive_device}} of={{path/to/file.img}}`
`dd if={{/dev/drive_device}} of={{path/to/file.img}} status=progress`

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pages/linux/dd.md
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- Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such as `archlinux-xxx.iso`) and show the progress:
`dd status=progress if={{path/to/file.iso}} of={{/dev/usb_drive}}`
`dd if={{path/to/file.iso}} of={{/dev/usb_drive}} status=progress`
- Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MiB block size and flush writes before the command terminates:
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
`dd bs={{1M}} count={{1000000}} if=/dev/zero of={{path/to/file_1GB}}`
- Create a system backup and save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping `if` and `of`):
- Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping `if` and `of`), and show the progress:
`dd if={{/dev/drive_device}} of={{path/to/file.img}}`
`dd if={{/dev/drive_device}} of={{path/to/file.img}} status=progress`
- Check the progress of an ongoing `dd` operation (run this command from another shell):

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pages/osx/dd.md
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- Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such like `archlinux-xxx.iso`) and show the progress:
`dd if={{path/to/file.iso}} of={{/dev/usb_device}} status=progress`
`dd if={{path/to/file.iso}} of={{/dev/usb_drive}} status=progress`
- Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MB block, ignore error and show the progress:
`dd if={{/dev/source_device}} of={{/dev/dest_device}} bs=4m conv=noerror status=progress`
`dd bs=4m conv=noerror if={{/dev/source_drive}} of={{/dev/dest_drive}} status=progress`
- Generate a file of 100 random bytes by using kernel random driver:
- Generate a file with a specific number of random bytes by using kernel random driver:
`dd if=/dev/urandom of={{path/to/random_file}} bs=100 count={{1}}`
`dd bs={{100}} count={{1}} if=/dev/urandom of={{path/to/random_file}}`
- Benchmark the write performance of a disk:
`dd if=/dev/zero of={{path/to/1GB_file}} bs={{1024}} count={{1000000}}`
`dd bs={{1024}} count={{1000000}} if=/dev/zero of={{path/to/1GB_file}}`
- Generate a system backup into an IMG file and show the progress:
- Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping `if` and `of`), and show the progress:
`dd if=/dev/{{drive_device}} of={{path/to/file.img}} status=progress`
- Restore a drive from an IMG file and show the progress:
`dd if={{path/to/file.img}} of={{/dev/drive_device}} status=progress`
`dd if={{/dev/drive_device}} of={{path/to/file.img}} status=progress`
- Check the progress of an ongoing `dd` operation (run this command from another shell):