I have successfully backed up my SD card twice by issuing the following command sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/user/Documents/raspi/images/raspi1.v2.iso bs=1M However, now it is giving me the foll...

I'm trying to write a Linux image in a CF card, as is shown in Google Code Archive: debian-for-alix - InstalationAndFirstSteps.wiki: When I do: sudo bzcat debian-for-alix-cf2g.img.bz2 | dd o...

For a load test of my application (under Linux), I'm looking for a tool that outputs data on stdout at a specific rate (like 100 bytes/s), so that I can pipe the output to netcat which sends it to ...

There are a lot of posts to show to create a virtual floppy image file as a super user or users can run sudo command. The basic steps are: create empty 1.44MB image file by dd command forma...

How we can copy for example 10 bytes of '7' to a file? How can I generate those 10 bytes of 7? For example for n bytes of zero I'm doing dd if=/dev/zero of=myFile bs=1 count=10.

I'm writing a C#.Net app to run on windows that needs to take an image of a removable disk and chuck it onto a Linux Live USB. The Live USB is the inserted into the target machine and boots, on sta...

I'm passingly familiar with the dd command, but I've rarely had the need to use it myself. Today I need to, but I'm encountering behavior that seems really weird. I want to create a 100M text file...

In shell script i need to redirect output from dd command to /dev/null - how to do that? ( dd if=/dev/zero of=1.txt count=1 ) 2>&1 /dev/null didn't work!