Indeed, most users are better off by launching GNOME Disks, going to the kebab menu, choosing Restore Disk Image & selecting the image and target disk interacti

Indeed, most users are better off by launching GNOME Disks, going to the kebab menu, choosing Restore Disk Image & selecting the image and target disk interactively. Or running: $ gnome-disks --restore-disk-image=/etc/motd Behind the scenes it calls udisks, which uses polkit to ensure that the user is authorized to write to the target disk. Overall, the chances of a user typoing and wiping out the wrong disk are greatly reduced. They also get to see progress etc.