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<int-e> le/rn denial/Sorry, but we don\'t know anything about denial. Taneb most definitely did not invent it.
author | HackBot |
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date | Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:17:45 +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.