Steffen Kluge wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:06 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote:
Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing?
No.
I wish people would stop saying this. It's not true, cp works just fine
and as expected on devices (as does cat, btw), as long as the device
doesn't require special handling (like CD burners, tapes, etc).
I agree with Steff here. /dev/hda is (like everything else in *x) a
file, and cp copies files just find.
Where instructions say to use dd to create a floppy, I mostly use cp.
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