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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Another advantage of having a NVMe SSD, hard to confuse /dev/nvme0n1p2 with /dev/sda1

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

It's even easier to prevent confusion if you use /dev/disk/by-id/ id's, it only took a few times of overwriting the wrong disk to figure that out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How can I figure out which direct device is associated with a specific id?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ˋblkidˋ or take a look around /dev, devices are symlinked to their various attributes.

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