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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What is the largest file transfer you have ever done? (startrek.website)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet.

This has caused me to wonder what the largest storage operation you guys have done. I've taken a couple images of hard drives that were a single terabyte large, but I was wondering if the sysadmins among you have had to do something with e.g a giant RAID 10 array.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I'm currently backing up my /dev folder to my unlimited cloud storage. The backup of the file /dev/random is running since two weeks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Cool, so I learned something new today. Don't run cat /dev/random

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not try /dev/urandom?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ya know, if not for the other person's comment, I might have been gullible enough to try this...

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