this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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ALWAYS be careful of the disk names you give to dd as input.
There's a reason they call 'dd' Data Destroyer!
Can you dd over a still mounted disk?
Probably, dd doesn't care. dd does what it is told.
Though there would probably be some weird effects.
Took me a whole to realize