• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root — can’t run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

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      2 months ago

      Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…

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        2 months ago

        Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)

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          2 months ago

          Oh right, my bad x) I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.