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<oerjan> addquote <hppavilion[1]> I think we need to make Greece an independent country
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date Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:31:47 +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.