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		jasomill on Dec 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most comp... It can't create partition tables or filesystems, so no, but `ffmpeg -f data -i /dev/zero -map 0:0 -c copy -f data - > /dev/sda` is roughly equivalent to to `dd status=progress if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda`

dylan604 on Dec 12, 2023 [–]

you might need a -disposition default type option, otherwise, it introduce some abnormal behavior

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