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>One thing I'll often use dd for is recovering data from a failing drive. Funnily enough, I ended up using it to accidentally name the wrong drive in the argum
by ue_ 10y ago
>One thing I'll often use dd for is recovering data from a failing drive.
Funnily enough, I ended up using it to accidentally name the wrong drive in the argument, and lost years of photos, music, video etc. though I suppose I can't blame dd for that :)
- jackyinger 10y agoDon't drink and dd. Spoken from experience.
- CPLX 10y agoI think there's a rule that you're not really qualified to discuss command line tools in public until you've used dd to inadvertently eradicate an entire partition.
- keithpeter 10y agoPersonally, I'd add the use of a trailing full-stop in an rsync command in the wrong directory (e.g. in /home/user) as an alternative qualification to your rule. I now use full paths for destination as well as source.