Week 4 - Live Data Acquisition - dd example

Question 1

Intro to dd command - example writing an iso file to an external USB (in Linux - mac example in video as well)

Answer 1

• Use sudo to get admin rights
  For linux remember disk naming:
  full disks are full disks are: /dev/sd[a,b,c…]
  partitions are: /dev/sda[1,2,3…]
  if = the input file
  of = the output file
  bs = block size in linux 1M is 1MB
  no progress bar, but can open a new command window in macos and give new commands or in LINUX use status=progress for progress update as we go

so example for LINUX is
sudo dd if=example.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress