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# imge
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- Write disk images to physical drive or vice versa.
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+ Write disk images to physical drive or vice versa with on-the-fly compression/decompression .
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## Install
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` Imge ` is a TUI tool for writing disk images to removable (by default) or non-removable
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(by ` -a ` option) drives. It also has an option to copy the drive to the disk image.
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+ When copying from image to disk and the image is compressed, the image is decompressed on the fly.
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+ When copying from disk to image and the image ends in .gz, .bz2 or .xz,
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+ the image is compressed on the fly.
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It's intended to be an easier to use and less error-prone than ` dd ` ,
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since choosing the wrong disk may have a big impact on the data on your hard drive.
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## TODO
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- - Compress/decompress image on the fly.
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- Verify if data was copied correctly.
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- Verify checksum before making copy.
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- Support copying /dev/zero and /dev/urandom to the drive.
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