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[-] youRFate@feddit.de 60 points 1 year ago

Why would you put a file system on the drive if you dd a disto image?

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

Not needed, just an extra step to fill up step 2 in this meme format.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe “fdisk -l” could be the first panel, then move the original to the second panel.

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Much better, didn't think of that at the time.

[-] youRFate@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Octopus1348@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've also seen this meme format having the same text on the third and fourth pane.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well it would, except it was stored on /dev/sda1...

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Me staring blankly for two panes trying to figure out what happened works too :-)

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

He didn't. But yes, the joke doesn't really work here.

[-] flauschke@kbin.flauschke.de 47 points 1 year ago

disk destroyer strikes again

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago

I heard it was called Data Destroyer.

[-] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The beast goes by many names

[-] n00b001@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dick destroyer

[-] outdated_belated 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing happened because he forgot to uncomment the commands im_stuff.jpg

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago
[-] jroid8@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have been using Linux for 3 years,

And I just learned this from your comment

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

That's kind of great, because root is not intended for regular users.

[-] Naz@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

How can that be true when nearly every command asks for root, including regular system updates? E.g: Sudo apt-get upgrade

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's what "sudo" does, it basically means run this as if you were logged in as root.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

[X] I ran dd and now my computer won't boot

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

Sure it will, to the iso you just overwrote your boot drive with lmao

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the ISO was on his boot drive, dd might have broken the partition before it finished reading the file.

It's a reference to the Arch Linux fuck-up assessment form anyway.

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

ALWAYS be careful of the disk names you give to dd as input.

[-] skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

There's a reason they call 'dd' Data Destroyer!

[-] alnilam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can you dd over a still mounted disk?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

Probably, dd doesn't care. dd does what it is told.

Though there would probably be some weird effects.

[-] marche_ck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Took me a whole to realize

[-] Raimu@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After wiping a backup drive, I decided to only use /dev/disk/{by-id,by-label}/ now, it is longer, but much less error prone.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's what tab complete is for.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You guys are still using SATA?confused Timmy

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shhh let's pretend we are for Groo's sake here.

Although in all seriousness, my desktop has both: a 512 GB NVMe where the OS and apps are installed and a 2 TB 7200 rpm HDD where I dump data and some slower games.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It's insane how much more affordable NVMEs are. When I got my 2tb it was almost three times as much as it is now.

[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Though, why formating a partition when it's completely overriden in the very next command. Also you won't be able to boot it anyways, you should flash the entire disk, not a partition.

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

Not needed, just an extra step to fill up step 2 in this meme format.

It's ok though, you had a backup. Right? You had a backup?

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

[insert Anakin & Padme meme]

[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Where my Linux 😔

[-] EddyBot@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

cp distro.iso /dev/sdX

[-] CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is dumb, the is no point in using mkfs just before dding an ISO on a drive, even if it is the wrong one.

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That was just an extra step to fit this 4 layer meme format. fdisk -l on the first would have been better instead as others have pointed out.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That, but also the canvas on the last 2 could have just been blank too. It's common in this format, and also makes sense

[-] snor10@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

destroydisk

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