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Which of these would be the best use of the Linux command “dd”?

A) Compress and decompress a list of files

B) Force a file system check

C) Administratively halt a running process

D) Share a remote screen

E) Create a drive image

F) Fix the problem with your keyboard repeating characters


The answer: E) Create a drive image

The dd command can copy and convert files, and it’s often used to copy the contents of a partition to an image file.

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