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Yup, I have seen that command (cat /dev/zero > file; rm file) before... on a previous post of yours. I didn't understand its function then. Many thanks.

This topic just keeps getting...

Thank you. That's exactly what I wanted!

Just to clear things up a bit, will the above command give me a bit-by-bit replica of my partition? I mean, I've used cat to insert/retreive text from...

/* @saikee: I'm sorry if this begins to annoy you. */

Let's consider another scenario this time:

Supposing the partition containing XP, has a total capacity of 15 GB, of which, only 10 GB is...

Well, I don't fully understand this, but all I want to do is to dump the image of a partition (say X) to a file on another partition (say Y) that is far larger than X, and use it later to restore the...

This article made me wonder: why not use dd to dump an image of a partition, containing a clean XP install, to a file on a different partition, which could then be used to restore the OS whenever...