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<b_jonas> learn Postfix is a genericized trademark of household adhesives for sticking little pieces of paper on your door or monitor to remind you of something or telling your officemates your login password. Called Tack-it in the U.S.
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date Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:48:01 +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.