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[-] ianhclark510 83 points 4 days ago

I’m here for a good time, not a long time

Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 78 points 4 days ago

They call it disk destroyer for a reason. You gotta alias that shit.

alias dd='echo Did you triple check which device you picked? Of course not, dipshit. Check again'

[-] tal@lemmy.today 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They call it disk destroyer for a reason.

There's nothing specially destructive about dd. It's just a program that opens a file, and if you tell it to open a device file and it's got permission to write to it, it'll write to it.

You can just as easily overwrite a disk's contents with anything else that will open a file and write to it.

# cp /dev/urandom /dev/sda

will wipe your drive with random data in the same way that

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

will.

[-] kettuli@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

mkfs.ntfs is the silent killer, other mkfs don’t allow writing over the root partition but summoning this kind of Windows magic will happily fuck up your shit.

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