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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?
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Accidentally flashed a live image (PCBSD, IIRC) onto my 1TB external HDD instead of the thumb drive. Lost years of collected music and movies that night. I learned two things:
ddis nicknamed 'disk destroyer' for good reason.😵💫 the 3am tinkering, it calls to me 😵💫
Never dd at 3am, kids.
Not done it at 3am but have dd'd to the wrong disk late in the evening, possibly after a few vinos
Fortunately my laptop only has nvmes built in, so 99% of the time all 3am me has to do is not type nvme and I'm good
When using dd, check the command before pressing enter, then check it again for good measure.
then replace dd with cat or cp.
Oh, am I talking to myself? Hah.
Yeah, I wish I had all the stuff I torrented in high school. Lost treasure.
... no use in dd to write an image to disk. Just use cat/cp/pv...
dd is a scalpell, not a shovel.
Useless use of dd
Late to the party but this why I like Ventoy. It only looks for removable drives and then all you do is drag and drop your live images onto the removable drive. Pretty hard to mess anything up.