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Granted, it’s important to know how to use vi, but most Linux people

quickly find themselves going to one of the hundreds of alternatives. Check

out one of the terminal-based editors such as vim, joe, or emacs, or one of the

graphical editors such as gedit or gVim.

dd

The dd command is primarily used to create an exact, bit-by-bit image of any

form of block storage, meaning mass storage devices such as hard drive

volumes, thumb drives, and optical media. In its most simple form, the dd

command is just

$ dd if=<source block device> of=<destination image file

location>

There’s no way to show you all the possible uses for dd, so I’ll just show

three of the typical places I use it. Let’s start with something simple: copying

a hard drive.

Be careful here! The dd command name is sometimes said jokingly to

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