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<oerjan> addquote <Taneb> English is a lie, words lack intrinsic meaning <int-e> fortunately people don\'t operate for long in a vacuum so there\'ll always be context
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date | Thu, 07 Dec 2017 10:21:07 +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.