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rollthehard6 on Jan 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)

I came from Solaris land originally and it always surprises me how seldom people use filesystem level utilities to copy such stuff, i.e. ufsdump | ufsrestore or dump | restore

Works a treat and using the fs level tool you know everything will be properly copied, much safer.

rollthehard6 on Jan 8, 2017 [–]

Obviously I'm not talking about raw devices, but people copying disks which often don't have that many filesystems on them.

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