Tag: dd

Give DD a progress bar This is a short description on how you can get a progress bar to your dd command or other commands as well using the command pv. pv is a shell pipeline element to meter data...
How to corrupt a disk partition using dd I wanted to test corruption of a 41TB XFS filesystem and the dd command was the perfect tool for the job. I used a block size of 512 bytes and wrote 10 blocks of data from...
Create a empty file using dd How to create a empty/null file with a specified size # dd if=/dev/zero of=destinationfile.bin bs=1024k count=100 This command creates a 100MB (1024k * 100) sized file.
Backup partition table This post describes how you can backup your partition table for future recovery. Backup This example describes how you can backup the disk partition table on /dev/sda dd...