On 17 Oct 2026 11:38:36 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
I agree, especially in regard to the destination. It was not a big risk
with optical media, because the device addresses are less near to the
addresses of system disks and the burn programs are incapable or
cautious enough.
yes, extra care must be taken when using dd. unlike cp in interactive
mode, dd won't ask user for confirmation. i have suffered data loss due
to wrong of option
hlyg wrote:
> wget allows partial downloading
Is there really an opportunity to let wget only download 1 MiB ?
I did not find such an option in the man page.
So i had to stop wget after a few MB with Ctrl+C.
i haven't said it clearly or correctly. if rewritten, i wouldn't mention
wget and would simply say "it needn't iso file in entirety, a few
megabytes is enough"
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i have high hope that my language holds 3rd place in alphabet order:
1)ae=American English
2)be=British English
3)ce=Chinese English
for simplification i propose elimination of a/an/the in CE as they aren't
useful and have no equivalence in Chinese
