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Not saying that its useful in the case you’re describing but that’s always been the reason I use it. When I want every bit on a disk copied to another disks, even the things with no meta data present.
Do cp capture the raw bits like dd does?
Not saying that its useful in the case you’re describing but that’s always been the reason I use it. When I want every bit on a disk copied to another disks, even the things with no meta data present.
As long as you copy from the device file (
/dev/whatever
), you will get “the raw bits”, regardless of whether you usedd
,cp
, or evencat
.That makes sense. Thanks!