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what did dd command do to destination drive

I am almost a beginner. And a total idiot.

so i have

done a dd if=/somefile.img of=/dev/sdc1

sdc1 was a USB disk drive with many many files on it i did not want to lose.

What it did was remove the dev/scd1 USB drive and my mounting of /media/movie and then change it to /media/somefile as the new mount point. The file system says UDF.

On reboot this comes up as a totally new mount and I can only see the results of the above .img extraction. (at least that worked)

the somefile.img was 4.4gb and was an image of a DVD.

I have since found out that DD is a unix command. So what did this do to this drive.

For example did it erase the MTF?
It took about 15 min to do so I am assuming it did not write to the whole 1TB that this disk is?
Did it write to the beginning of the disk with only 4.4gb of information?
Thus is it possible that although the other files cannot be seen at the moment some of the file recovery programs may be able to see them? (this last question is not so important as i am back with wondows and trying to do this I am just trying to understand what dd does)
 
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PVMOVE(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 PVMOVE(8)

NAME
pvmove - move physical extents SYNOPSIS
pvmove [--abort] [--alloc AllocationPolicy] [-b|--background] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-i|--interval Seconds] [--noudevsync] [-v|--ver- bose] [-n|--name LogicalVolume] [SourcePhysicalVolume[:PE[-PE]...] [DestinationPhysicalVolume[:PE[-PE]...]...]] DESCRIPTION
pvmove allows you to move the allocated physical extents (PEs) on SourcePhysicalVolume to one or more other physical volumes (PVs). You can optionally specify a source LogicalVolume in which case only extents used by that LV will be moved to free (or specified) extents on DestinationPhysicalVolume(s). If no DestinationPhysicalVolume is specified, the normal allocation rules for the Volume Group are used. If pvmove gets interrupted for any reason (e.g. the machine crashes) then run pvmove again without any PhysicalVolume arguments to restart any moves that were in progress from the last checkpoint. Alternatively use pvmove --abort at any time to abort them at the last check- point. You can run more than one pvmove at once provided they are moving data off different SourcePhysicalVolumes, but additional pvmoves will ignore any Logical Volumes already in the process of being changed, so some data might not get moved. pvmove works as follows: 1. A temporary 'pvmove' Logical Volume is created to store details of all the data movements required. 2. Every Logical Volume in the Volume Group is searched for contiguous data that need moving according to the command line arguments. For each piece of data found, a new segment is added to the end of the pvmove LV. This segment takes the form of a temporary mirror to copy the data from the original location to a newly-allocated location. The original LV is updated to use the new temporary mirror segment in the pvmove LV instead of accessing the data directly. 3. The Volume Group metadata is updated on disk. 4. The first segment of the pvmove Logical Volume is activated and starts to mirror the first part of the data. Only one segment is mir- rored at once as this is usually more efficient. 5. A daemon repeatedly checks progress at the specified time interval. When it detects that the first temporary mirror is in-sync, it breaks that mirror so that only the new location for that data gets used and writes a checkpoint into the Volume Group metadata on disk. Then it activates the mirror for the next segment of the pvmove LV. 6. When there are no more segments left to be mirrored, the temporary Logical Volume is removed and the Volume Group metadata is updated so that the Logical Volumes reflect the new data locations. Note that this new process cannot support the original LVM1 type of on-disk metadata. Metadata can be converted using vgconvert(8). N.B. The moving of mirrors, snapshots and their origins is not yet supported. OPTIONS
--abort Abort any moves in progress. --noudevsync Disable udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev. It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the background. You should only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM2 cre- ates. -b, --background Run the daemon in the background. -i, --interval Seconds Report progress as a percentage at regular intervals. -n, --name LogicalVolume Move only the extents belonging to LogicalVolume from SourcePhysicalVolume instead of all allocated extents to the destination phys- ical volume(s). EXAMPLES
To move all Physical Extents that are used by simple Logical Volumes on /dev/sdb1 to free Physical Extents elsewhere in the Volume Group use: pvmove /dev/sdb1 Any mirrors, snapshots and their origins are left unchanged. Additionally, a specific destination device /dev/sdc1 can be specified like this: pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 To perform the action only on extents belonging to the single Logical Volume lvol1 do this: pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Rather than moving the contents of the entire device, it is possible to move a range of Physical Extents - for example numbers 1000 to 1999 inclusive on /dev/sdb1 - like this: pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 To move a range of Physical Extents to a specific location (which must have sufficent free extents) use the form: pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1 or pvmove /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1:0-999 If the source and destination are on the same disk, the anywhere allocation policy would be needed, like this: pvmove --alloc anywhere /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdb1:0-999 The part of a specific Logical Volume present within in a range of Physical Extents can also be picked out and moved, like this: pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1:1000-1999 /dev/sdc1 SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgconvert(8) pvs(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVMOVE(8)