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    [–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why would you put a file system on the drive if you dd a disto image?

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not needed, just an extra step to fill up step 2 in this meme format.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe “fdisk -l” could be the first panel, then move the original to the second panel.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Much better, didn't think of that at the time.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
    [–] Octopus1348 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I've also seen this meme format having the same text on the third and fourth pane.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well it would, except it was stored on /dev/sda1...

    [–] valkyre09 3 points 1 year ago

    Me staring blankly for two panes trying to figure out what happened works too :-)

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

    He didn't. But yes, the joke doesn't really work here.

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    disk destroyer strikes again

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I heard it was called Data Destroyer.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The beast goes by many names

    [–] n00b001 2 points 1 year ago

    Dick destroyer

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Nothing happened because he forgot to uncomment the commands im_stuff.jpg

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] jroid8 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I have been using Linux for 3 years,

    And I just learned this from your comment

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That's kind of great, because root is not intended for regular users.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    How can that be true when nearly every command asks for root, including regular system updates? E.g: Sudo apt-get upgrade

    [–] Crashumbc 2 points 1 year ago

    That's what "sudo" does, it basically means run this as if you were logged in as root.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ALWAYS be careful of the disk names you give to dd as input.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    There's a reason they call 'dd' Data Destroyer!

    [–] alnilam 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can you dd over a still mounted disk?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    Probably, dd doesn't care. dd does what it is told.

    Though there would probably be some weird effects.

    [–] marche_ck 1 points 1 year ago

    Took me a whole to realize

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    [X] I ran dd and now my computer won't boot

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sure it will, to the iso you just overwrote your boot drive with lmao

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If the ISO was on his boot drive, dd might have broken the partition before it finished reading the file.

    It's a reference to the Arch Linux fuck-up assessment form anyway.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You guys are still using SATA?confused Timmy

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Shhh let's pretend we are for Groo's sake here.

    Although in all seriousness, my desktop has both: a 512 GB NVMe where the OS and apps are installed and a 2 TB 7200 rpm HDD where I dump data and some slower games.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's insane how much more affordable NVMEs are. When I got my 2tb it was almost three times as much as it is now.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Though, why formating a partition when it's completely overriden in the very next command. Also you won't be able to boot it anyways, you should flash the entire disk, not a partition.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    Not needed, just an extra step to fill up step 2 in this meme format.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    After wiping a backup drive, I decided to only use /dev/disk/{by-id,by-label}/ now, it is longer, but much less error prone.

    [–] DoomBot5 4 points 1 year ago

    That's what tab complete is for.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's ok though, you had a backup. Right? You had a backup?

    [–] valkyre09 4 points 1 year ago

    [insert Anakin & Padme meme]

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Where my Linux 😔

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This is dumb, the is no point in using mkfs just before dding an ISO on a drive, even if it is the wrong one.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That was just an extra step to fit this 4 layer meme format. fdisk -l on the first would have been better instead as others have pointed out.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    That, but also the canvas on the last 2 could have just been blank too. It's common in this format, and also makes sense

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    cp distro.iso /dev/sdX

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    destroydisk