Hi folks,

I try to wrap my head around why the FAQ 
(https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDEkeydisk) says that one 
should create a backup of the keydisk with bs=8192 and skip=1.

>From the FAQ:

# dd bs=8192 skip=1 if=/dev/rsd1a of=backup-keydisk.img
# dd bs=8192 seek=1 if=backup-keydisk.img of=/dev/rsd1a

My personal inclination was to just dd the whole disk (like dd if=/dev/rsd1c) 
...

Is there anyone who spares the time to give me an explanation?

Thanks in advance!
Andreas

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