http://snipplr.com/users/webonomic/tags/boot Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:21:16 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/13173/backup-your-mbr-on-linux/ About the dd command: dd if= of= bs=("USUALLY" some power of 2, not less than 512 bytes(ie, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384[/b], but can be ANY reasonable number.) skip= seek= conv=. Source is the data being read. Target is where the data gets written. Warning!! If you reverse the source and target, you can wipe out a lot of data. This feature has inspired the nickname "dd" Data Destroyer. Warning!! Caution should be observed when using dd to duplicate encrypted partitions.

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