Commands like dd are the best. Good ole greybeard-era spells with arcane syntax and the power to casually wipe out the whole universe (from their perspective ofc) if used haphazardly or not in respectful manner.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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What do you mean? Explicitly having to set if= and of= is way harder to screw up than mixing up the order of arguments for e.g. cp.
I could swear the argument order to "ln" swaps every now and then!
Unless you forget what if and of mean. With cp it's simply "cp what where". Never had problems remembering that.
is it really hard to remember infile and outfile?
No, but you're just typing if and of, not infile and outfile, and the letters are right next to each other on a qwerty kbd. One can haphazardly misuse a lot of commands, it's just that some commands may lead to nastier outcomes than others.
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Computer equivalent of vacuum decay in our universe...
Always lsblk before dd. The order of /sdX might change from boot to boot. Only /nvme doesn't change.
First thing I do after loading the liveusb is write the "mylsblk" which does the much more sane thing of:
lsblk -o NAME,LABEL,PARTLABEL,UUID,SIZE,MOUNTPOINTS
Why is this?
It's a design thing. BIOS can know NVMe disks' location because they're directly mounted to PCIe. SATA isn't like this. Similar logic with the RAM slots.
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--status=progress. So happy when they added this.
If only I could remember to set status=progress...
I always end up using killall -USR1 from another terminal
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I am become dd, the destroyer of disks
i always just
cat /dev/??? > /dev/null
to make sure the usb blinks
More like *screams into the void*
Me laughing with /dev/nvme0n1p1
well i mean, the original meme was referring to a usb device with an led...
That's a good way of doing it
This is the only reason why I still use GUI for making Linux USBs. Can't trust my ADHD ass to write the correct drive name. Also, none of my USB drives have a light.
Popsicle is pretty nice, it doesn't let you choose the internal drives afaik.
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We seriously need a series of DD-Command 4 Dummies guides Also you guys have USB drives with lights ????
heh i do it hardcore, my USB has no light ;)
Don't confuse if and of!
don't cross the streams
/dev/disk/by-id/xxx works for me. Never made a mistake.
ls /dev > /tmp/before
ls /dev > /tmp/after
diff /tmp/before /tmp/after
<sweating>
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Sounds like someone's not up to date with their backups.
Doesn't dd pick sda by default?
No
Reminds me of the DOS days of my youth.
fdisk does not stand for friendly disk.
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