134 Why is “/dev/rdisk” about 20 times faster than “/dev/disk” in Mac OS X 2013-08-13T22:26:28.313

91 How do I create a 1GB random file in Linux? 2012-09-06T18:03:06.640

81 Why is piping 'dd' through gzip so much faster than a direct copy? 2014-05-29T08:35:55.707

51 dd is producing a 32 MB random file instead of 1 GB 2018-12-27T11:01:09.337

50 How to create a bootable USB from a bootable ISO with the command line on Linux? 2013-05-03T20:11:23.260

48 What does an asterisk "*" mean in hexdump output? 2012-10-27T21:33:41.533

47 How Do I Find The Hardware Block Read Size for My Hard Drive? 2010-03-18T05:35:34.347

43 windows equivalent for dd 2014-11-13T09:52:32.333

41 Is there a method of getting a percentage on a DD in linux? 2018-01-30T22:46:54.207

40 What does dd conv=sync,noerror do? 2013-07-22T02:07:04.957

39 How can I clone a hard drive directly to a vdi image 2013-07-02T00:57:27.160

37 Why does 'dd' not work for creating bootable USB? 2012-04-01T12:33:37.797

31 How can I find what /dev my DVD-drive is? 2010-02-28T11:19:27.727

31 Why is my /dev/random so slow when using dd? 2011-11-20T23:58:23.537

30 How to create VHD disk image from a Linux live system? 2012-04-10T21:41:15.723

30 How to use Cygwin to copy an image from an SD memory card 2013-04-10T15:58:18.333

29 Can I expand the size of a file based disk image? 2013-12-26T04:55:00.370

28 How to output file from the specified offset, but not "dd bs=1 skip=N"? 2012-01-20T21:20:02.420

26 How can I mount a disk image? 2011-10-10T10:04:57.610

22 How to erase a hard drive with unwritable sectors? 2010-12-15T12:04:50.297

21 How to pad a file with "FF" using dd? 2011-04-25T01:19:00.180

21 Why do we use cp to copy files and not dd? (in unix-derivatives) 2013-06-18T19:37:40.063

20 How to append data in a file by dd? 2014-12-09T05:52:20.213

20 Why does dd sometimes not wait until data is written? 2015-08-21T13:59:09.070

19 dd performance on Mac OS X vs. Linux 2012-05-07T22:47:59.313

19 How to resize img file created with dd? 2013-06-22T16:34:47.033

17 How to copy an ISO image onto USB with dd 2011-10-29T10:09:01.107

17 using dd to copy partition to another partition, while using physical drive 2013-02-16T04:11:00.307

16 How do I create an MBR on a USB stick using DD command line tool 2011-12-16T01:51:01.043

15 Clone only space in use from hard disk 2016-07-05T17:02:02.897

12 How to do a hexdump of first track of HDD? 2011-06-29T15:25:07.627

12 How to tell if you have a fake sd card 2013-08-14T01:37:17.297

12 Faster recovery from a disk with bad sectors 2015-04-24T18:42:12.457

11 Why didn't `dd conv=sparse` save space as I expected? 2016-10-18T21:11:47.720

10 Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue 2011-10-18T13:27:28.493

10 dd_rescue vs dcfldd vs dd 2011-11-09T00:10:04.843

10 What happens if I dd zeros to the drive where dd resides? 2013-04-23T20:26:22.303

10 dd function seems to freeze when done 2017-06-19T21:10:03.023

9 How can I recover a crashed hard drive? 2010-06-22T19:31:10.777

9 How can I mount dd image of a partition? 2012-10-17T10:00:17.540

9 Attempting to access RAM /dev/mem... says "Operation not permitted" 2013-03-07T12:42:06.067

9 Can I use dd to clone a larger SD card to a smaller SD card if the actual partitions will fit? 2013-03-18T15:42:30.770

9 Is there a way to output the status of dd (on OS X) during the copy process? 2014-08-09T19:55:07.153

8 Which way is the fastest to `dd` to the last 512 kilobytes of disk 2010-04-08T11:17:29.240

8 Why is GNU shred faster than dd when filling a drive with random data? 2012-04-29T11:37:58.653

8 What exactly does the dd command do? 2012-08-01T05:49:23.053

8 Cloning an SD card onto a larger SD card 2012-08-12T12:29:16.467

8 Creating a large file of random bytes quickly 2014-08-04T21:26:02.160

7 Mount raw CD-ROM image 2009-08-22T20:18:14.907

7 How do you create and partition a raw disk image? 2012-12-12T22:35:32.747

7 Using dd to clone a HDD to an SSD? 2016-03-10T02:25:15.943

6 dd gets slower while reading and writing 2011-01-25T08:57:52.857

6 Can I resume an interrupted disk image done with dd? 2011-06-20T19:54:26.647

6 Compressing a file in place - does "gzip -c file | dd of=file" really work? 2012-01-18T08:23:05.063

6 Is it possible to 'instantly' create arbitrary files? 2012-08-07T16:27:42.703

6 Can cat be used to clone a partition? 2013-12-24T11:46:45.443

6 Complete wiping of hard drive - shred, wipe or dd? 2014-10-25T09:44:43.677

6 What's the difference between dd and cat for writing image files? 2015-07-24T03:38:38.303

6 What steps am I missing in my attempt to create bootable Linux distribution image? 2015-09-24T15:48:49.500

6 dd always fails to write one partition on first try; succeeds on second 2016-07-25T01:06:07.437

5 faster dd backup by differential copy 2011-01-08T02:50:00.537

5 How to Copy .VHD File to Physical Hard Disk Using DD Command 2011-03-09T14:04:23.947

5 File recovery: How can I make a non-destructive copy of a (NTFS) partition? 2012-06-28T22:37:04.563

5 Accidentally dd'ed an image to wrong drive / overwrote partition table + NTFS partition start 2012-07-07T12:38:23.560

5 bash - test if disk is unpartitioned 2012-09-07T16:43:41.790

5 msys-1.0's dd on windows 2013-03-05T13:49:36.900

5 How to write bootable iso to a partition? 2014-12-05T01:45:52.603

5 Accidentally overwrote wrong disk with dd, how to recover? 2016-02-23T18:01:58.493

5 Is it safe to use 'dd' to "rejuvinate" a hard drive by setting of=if? 2017-04-10T00:28:53.900

5 Wrong dd command on main drive - How to recover data? 2017-08-13T14:32:41.553

5 Why you can't just "dd" CD Audio like an ordinary data CD? 2018-03-10T23:43:47.730

4 Using dd with bad blocks on a harddrive? 2011-07-11T16:56:45.387

4 Recovering Ubuntu after filesystem was overwritten using dd 2011-09-21T15:38:25.487

4 Trying to create an ISO of my bootable USB using the unix command: dd 2011-09-27T12:12:44.977

4 Checking if any data exists on a presumably empty storage device 2012-01-07T16:09:39.953

4 Can you successfully clone a Mac OS X boot volume directly to another larger volume with ddrescue? 2012-01-12T11:30:32.837

4 What is the difference between dd's direct and fsync options? 2012-01-29T10:38:08.773

4 Making bootable USB flash drive with dd 2012-07-13T23:25:59.630

4 dd command to create bootable iso image of hard disk 2013-01-04T10:04:15.713

4 How to create an image of a Live system over ssh? 2013-01-08T22:10:01.800

4 Use losetup and dd to make filesystems images ready to be deployed 2013-03-27T20:10:45.547

4 What is the difference between byte sizes for DD 2013-04-29T17:25:19.437

4 Attempting to test an embedded nand flash chip by filling up a file to drive capacity 2013-05-03T18:05:06.587

4 Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd? 2013-05-14T10:24:12.060

4 How to get Linux to be loaded to RAM? 2014-02-03T18:12:44.157

4 Why does 'dd' produce different files for same USB stick? 2015-02-01T11:29:09.953

4 What does dd do that pv doesn't? 2015-06-11T15:30:35.970

4 Using dd command fails after the first mount 2015-11-05T12:58:43.910

4 dd - how to extract a subsection of a file with 2 offsets? 2016-02-13T07:00:26.020

4 Shrink total disk image: UEFI GPT Flashdrive - freespace at end 2016-05-27T18:26:43.193

4 Proper, if any, way to use dd as pipe buffer? 2017-05-04T20:58:31.150

4 How can a file created by dd be bigger than the partition? 2018-03-11T22:16:24.047

4 Filling file with 0xFF gives C3BF in OSX 2018-08-16T03:35:29.313

3 dd clone hard drive: Input/Output Error though "chkdsk" says OK 2009-09-03T22:55:50.967

3 How do skip MBR & partition table while doing dd of a partition 2009-12-21T06:40:56.307

3 dd producing corrupt ISO images on Snow Leopard (whether invoked from a script or the shell) 2010-02-07T17:06:38.963

3 Backing up to smaller drive 2010-05-24T07:52:49.580

3 Why does my disk ignore erase and write commands to some sectors? 2011-08-13T20:39:09.817

3 How to make a floppy image and overwrite the MBR 2011-08-15T01:36:24.660