• zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 months ago

    thank you! I think this is what needed to explore
    It is not my level to edit these things, I’m just Linux newbie exploring the possibilities.

    But I still can’t wrap my head over dd not being able to wipe a storage device out, despite being described as a “low level tool that can write zeroes to targets” in the discussion I viewed online.

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      6 months ago

      The bios isn’t like a regular storage device presented to the kernel for mounting.

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      6 months ago

      Dd can’t overwrite a burned cdr either. If the thing you wanna mess with is read only there’s no way to use it as a dd of.