A question arising from my Hackintosh efforts.....
If using dd to copy an image to a device - say an img file to a USB
stick - does the transfer occur at the lowest level or is the image
written to the partition / format structure that exists.
My expectation was that if I dd an img file to /dev/sdc (a USB stick)
that it would end up with the partitioning, MBR and file structure as
defined in the img file ?
If that is the case, why do I see tutorials that go on at length about
formatting sticks and using the right file system / partition table
type, only to then splat an image on them with dd ?
For clarity I'm taling about a simple dd command like
dd if=stick.img of=/dev/sdc
without any qualifying parameters
Phil
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