💻 Disk Destroyer (DD)

An earned reputation for destroying all the things

• sudo blkid

• sudo dd if=/mnt/Storage/qemu/winxppro.img of=/dev/sXX

• sudo gunzip -c /backup/backup.image.gz | dd of=/dev/sXX

• sudo dd if=/dev/sXX conv=sync,noerror bs=4K | gzip -c > /backup/backup.image.gz

• sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xXx bs=1M

• sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/xXx bs=1M

• sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xXx bs=446 count=1

MakeMKV for copying media is highly recommended

• Open video with VLC first..

  Because reasons..

• blocks=$(isosize -d 2048 /dev/sr0)

• sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/output.iso bs=2048 count=$blocks status=progress

• mount

• sudo umount /dev/cdrom

• sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dir/cdimg1.iso

• Arch Wiki: dd