what you ask for. I knew you were going to say that. Yes, okay. Cloning a drive with DD. Hi guys, just wanted to drop you a note to say that I really enjoy the Going Linux podcast. I returned to GNU Linux in 2011 when I installed Ubuntu on my laptop and have been a very happy Linux user ever since. I found episode 331 interesting and informative, especially your discussion regarding backups. I do like that you included the DD command to create a full drive or backup partition. I do have a few suggestions that would make the DD command more useful and less scary, especially since the DD command does not provide progress by default. So no progress bar. First, I think you need to use the sudo command as the prefix to the DD command. You're probably right there. Also, to ensure that the command writes out full record blocks, the conv parameter, no trunk, needs to be added. Keep this in mind, to clone sda, the system hard drive, to the destination drive sdb, external drive in my case, the (10/45)
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