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[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

iirc there was a reason you should use dd instead of directly copying the data, I think something to do with device block alignment or something?

[–] foudinfo@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

That could be possible but for the moment I didn't encouter any problem with cat. I think I'm going to stick with it for the time being.