On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:39 AM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:

dd itself should be really the last resort we should use more user
friendly tools (we have them
in gnome-disk-utilty for instance) ... dd is pretty dangerous if you
get the device name wrong (sdb instead of sdc or something) ... boom.

That's another benefit of writing our own utility, we can make sure it will refuse to operate on non-removable media.

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-Elad Alfassa.