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dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/wrong_disk Killed a windows install (which had the first partition on the disk) only a year ago with that one.
by gpm 7y ago
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/wrong_disk
Killed a windows install (which had the first partition on the disk) only a year ago with that one.
- ryall 7y agoI lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent file as input to overwrite an existing file That doesn't even have a .tar extension. That's exactly what I wanted"