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<Taneb> learn Eyebrows are Taneb\'s most notable feature
author HackBot
date Sun, 09 Oct 2016 21:08:40 +0000
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.