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I've screwed up countless things, many much more expensive than this, but those stories aren't entirely mine to tell. But this was one of my first. Years ago,
by adw 13y ago
I've screwed up countless things, many much more expensive than this, but those stories aren't entirely mine to tell.
But this was one of my first. Years ago, making boot floppies for a physics lab where I was reinstalling all the servers:
I meant: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0
I did: dd if=/dev/zero of=/def/hda
Oops. Bye, partition table.
(Always double-check everything you type as root.)
- cjensen 13y agoI meant to dd a partition to tape... and ended up doing the reverse on our fileserver. Tape is slow, so I caught it after a few kilobytes. Somehow I managed to salvage the situation using the man pages for the filesystem, the C compiler, and making sure I did not reboot. Really don't remember much about that late night...