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How to properly use ‘dd’ on Linux to benchmark the write speed of your disk?

Sep 192012

Original article published on http://romanrm.ru

This article is written to address sometimes incorrect usage of the “dd” program to measure disk write performance on a VPS by some visitors of the lowendbox.com website, and is originally based on this question and my answer to it.
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How to clone a PC on the network with 2 live cd

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Nov 282011

I hope this brief guide will be useful to others as it has been helpful to me, I found it on Lilis a site where there are useful guides published by Linux enthusiasts.

Mini guide to clone 2 PC without any special tools.
With two Linux livecd, can be anything you like the only requirement is the support to the network, you can proceed using the command “dd” and transferring the data over the network with the comand “netcat“.
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How-To: Create ISO Images from Command-Line

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Aug 252011

Original article by Craciun Dan published on Tuxarena, the article is based on the installation and use within a distribution with packages .deb

For this tutorial we’ll use the genisoimage utility, developed as part of the cdrkit project. genisoimage is a command-line tool for creating ISO 9660 filesystem images, which can be burnt after to a CD or DVD using wodim or some other burning tool. To install it open a terminal and type the following as root:

apt-get install genisoimage

Now, let’s use the simplest syntax to create an ISO image out of a directory and its contents:

genisoimage -o output_image.iso directory_name

The best articles of July 2011

08/02/2011
The best articles of July 2011
Posted by linuxari at 22:07
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Tagged with: best cheat sheet, dd, linuxaria, ubuntu, untangle

As usual, in the beginning of the month I present to you the 7 most read articles of the previous month. 7 – Linux system info, cheat sheet This is a small collection of commands that can give you information on a Linux computer. Most of this commands can be run as non-privileged user, but […]

The dd command on Linux terminal.

07/07/2011
The dd command on Linux terminal.
Posted by Riccardo at 00:13
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Tagged with: bash, dd, linux, shell, terminal

dd seem an unfriendly command, but if you start to use it, you’ll see that it’s a powerful command able to do many different things, backup a partition, CD or USB stick for example or do some simple tests on the speed of your disks or your CPU. The man page say: dd is an […]