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usb formatting (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by SkySyrup@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It was less useless for that purpose when cp and cat were less I/O efficient compared to dd with the appropriate block size, which isn't as much the case now as it used to be.