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[–] gogosempai 29 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!

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Took me a whole to realize