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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Though the Windows thing was really funny ๐Ÿ˜‚.

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[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

I never deleted my root system with rm but I did dd go sda instead of sdb and ended up losing my data.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago
[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

With great power comes great responsibility. Do check twice what you write.

Jokes aside, it has happened to almost everyone... and then you learn to QUADRUPLE CHECK dd commands.

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 5 points 8 months ago

I haven't accidentally deleted a bunch of data yet (which, considering 99% of my interaction with Linux is when I'm SSH'd into a user's server, I am very paranoid about not doing), but I have run fsck on a volume without mounting the read/write flashcache with dirty blocks on it first.

Oops.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

It will happen to you sooner or later ๐Ÿ˜‚... we're all dead on a long enough time scale ๐Ÿคท ๐Ÿ˜‚.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

or just don't attach any drives except the main one to your system. ever.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

That's a very bleak future... at least for me.

[-] Pete90@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I did, and it was fast. I was a complete noob, so I thought rm -rf /* would delete everything in the current folder. I hit Ctrl + C, but it was too late. Took a few seconds to wipe out the whole system.

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