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Dude's missing an important point: If you mess up the syntax on a dd invocation, a nice thing happens: nothing. Use a shell command and pipes, and your comman
by ocschwar 10y ago
Dude's missing an important point:
If you mess up the syntax on a dd invocation, a nice thing happens: nothing.
Use a shell command and pipes, and your command better be perfect before you hit return.
- schoen 10y agoThe biggest counterexample to this that some people have experienced is accidentally swapping if= and of=, thus backing up their target onto their source rather than vice versa.
- floatboth 10y agoWell that's not syntax…
- cat199 10y agothough I'm not a fan of this article by any means, I've definately dd'ed the wrong disk before and slapped myself for doing so.. Usually it's not past the easily-reproducable system partition yet or on a data disk that is backed up regularly so I can recover in an hour or so..
- bigbugbag 10y agoIf you dd'ed the wrong disk the syntax of your dd invocation was correct.