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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:25:01 +0300
From: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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Subject: Re: does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability to
> not create dd-able images so much as partition and format physical
> target devices. surely, the underlying logic would be the same, i just
> want to work with the target hard drive and bypass creating the image
> itself.
> 

The only purpose of wic is to create images. I'm afraid it doesn't have
the functionality you're looking for.

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Regards,
Ed