From: thorongil@telenet.be   
      
   On 26.12.2021 at 17:19, bad sector scribbled:   
      
   > I do a lot of dd to back up or restore partitions but lately I've had    
   > to avoid doing so from a Leap-15.3 Konsole. While Slackware's    
   > root login at cLi level has always been the fastest and most    
   > reliable UI to do this from, it also worked from any terminal in    
   > GUI environments but in Leap it lately often results in a totally   
   > locked system. Not so in TW, Slackware, Devuan or Artix.   
      
   According to my information — which may be wrong — openSUSE Leap uses   
   btrfs by default, and if you're used to other filesystems, then btrfs   
   is a whole other beast.     
      
   I'm not so sure whether dd would be the right tool to use with btrfs,   
   among other things because btrfs aggressively caches and buffers, in   
   combination with that it uses copy-on-write.  And if you're running dd   
   from a terminal emulator in a graphical environment, then there's a lot   
   of data being cached and buffered.   
      
   --    
   With respect,   
   = Aragorn =   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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