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How to make make disk image with dd on Linux or Unix

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Aug 17, 2016

Disk cloning is nothing but a mere process of creating an image of an entire disk. This can be useful for copying disks, backups, recovery and more. The dd command is easy to use tool for making such clones. You can easily use the dd command for making an image of a partition or of a full hard disk drive.
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