The dd command in Linux USES an example tutorial

  • 2020-06-07 05:56:04
  • OfStack

This paper mainly introduces the use of dd command in Linux and shares it for your reference and study. Here is a detailed introduction:

1. The Linux dd command copies a file with a block of the specified size and performs the specified conversion while copying.

Usage: dd [OPERAND]

Parameter notes:


 bs=BYTES  read and write BYTES bytes at a time (also see ibs=,obs=)
 cbs=BYTES  convert BYTES bytes at a time
 conv=CONVS  convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list
 count=N   copy only N input blocks
 ibs=BYTES  read BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)
 if=FILE   read from FILE instead of stdin( The default is standard input )
 iflag=FLAGS  read as per the comma separated symbol list
 obs=BYTES  write BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512)
 of=FILE   write to FILE instead of stdout( The default is standard output )
 oflag=FLAGS  write as per the comma separated symbol list
 seek=BLOCKS  skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output
 skip=BLOCKS  skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input
 status=WHICH WHICH info to suppress outputting to stderr;
     'noxfer' suppresses transfer stats, 'none' suppresses all

Optional parameters for CONVS


 ascii  from EBCDIC to ASCII
 ebcdic from ASCII to EBCDIC
 ibm  from ASCII to alternate EBCDIC
 block  pad newline-terminated records with spaces to cbs-size
 unblock replace trailing spaces in cbs-size records with newline
 lcase  change upper case to lower case
 nocreat do not create the output file
 excl  fail if the output file already exists
 notrunc do not truncate the output file
 ucase  change lower case to upper case
 sparse try to seek rather than write the output for NUL input blocks
 swab  swap every pair of input bytes
 noerror continue after read errors
 sync  pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used
   with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs
 fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing
 fsync  likewise, but also write metadata

Optional parameters for FLAGS


 append append mode (makes sense only for output; conv=notrunc suggested)
 direct use direct I/O for data
 directory fail unless a directory
 dsync  use synchronized I/O for data
 sync  likewise, but also for metadata
 fullblock accumulate full blocks of input (iflag only)
 nonblock use non-blocking I/O
 noatime do not update access time
 noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file
 nofollow do not follow symlinks
 count_bytes treat 'count=N' as a byte count (iflag only)

Note: The specified number is multiplied by the corresponding number if it ends in the following character:


c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M

GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y

2. Use examples

1. Backup the local /dev/hdb disk to /dev/hdd


dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdd

2. Backup all /dev/hdb data to the image file in the specified path


dd if=/dev/hdb of=/root/image

3. Backup /dev/hdb data and use gzip tools to compress and save to the specified path


dd if=/dev/hdb | gzip > /root/image.gz

4. Split 1 file into 3 files


# File size is 2.3k
[Oracle@rhel6 ~]$ ll db1_db_links.sql 
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2344 Nov 21 10:39 db1_db_links.sql
# Break this file into each one 1k . bs=1k . count=1 , the use of skip Parameter specifies how many to skip in the input file bs A read 
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd if=db1_db_links.sql of=dd01.sql bs=1k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 4.5536e-05 s, 22.5 MB/s
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd if=db1_db_links.sql of=dd02.sql bs=1k count=1 skip=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.000146387 s, 7.0 MB/s
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd if=db1_db_links.sql of=dd03.sql bs=1k count=1 skip=2
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
296 bytes (296 B) copied, 0.000204216 s, 1.4 MB/s
# Split out the file 
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ ll dd*sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1024 May 20 14:58 dd01.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1024 May 20 14:58 dd02.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 296 May 20 14:58 dd03.sql

5. Merge the split files into one


# Merge operation, in this case seek Parameter to specify which to skip in the input file bs The number 
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd of=1.sql if=dd01.sql 
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.000176 s, 5.8 MB/s
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd of=1.sql if=dd02.sql bs=1k seek=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.000124038 s, 8.3 MB/s
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd of=1.sql if=dd03.sql bs=1k seek=2
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
296 bytes (296 B) copied, 0.00203881 s, 145 kB/s
# Verify with the file before the split 
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ diff 1.sql db1_db_links.sql
[oracle@rhel6 ~]$

6. Inserts data at the location specified in the output file without truncating the output file

You need to use conv=notrunc parameter


[oracle@rhel6 ~]$ dd if=2.sql of=1.sql bs=1k seek=1 count=2 conv=notrunc

conclusion


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