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minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoOne 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.
minus-squarefoudinfo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoYep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoRight, 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 :)
minus-squarefoudinfo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoOh right, my bad x) I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.
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
sudoas-is, unlikedd.Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…
Right, I just meant that you can’t
sudo cat file > /dev/sdabut you cansudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)Oh right, my bad x) I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.