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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files... and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think... It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though...

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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:

Don't do this sort of thing in the middle of the night, when you're tired and should be sleeping.
dd is nicknamed 'disk destroyer' for good reason.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😵‍💫 the 3am tinkering, it calls to me 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never dd at 3am, kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not done it at 3am but have dd'd to the wrong disk late in the evening, possibly after a few vinos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Disconnect all other drives

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When using dd, check the command before pressing enter, then check it again for good measure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

then replace dd with cat or cp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, am I talking to myself? Hah.

Yeah, I wish I had all the stuff I torrented in high school. Lost treasure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.