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by evh
1330 days ago
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> Another reason to prefer the cat variant is that it lets you actually string together a normal shell pipeline. That's just as easy with dd, decompress|dd is especially useful: xzcat linux.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=1M Throw pv in there if you want to. > here are two ways to create a 100 MB file containing all zeroes And here's a better way: truncate -s 100m zero.img |
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