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    • kbotc@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Disk Duplicator is a destroyer? Man, I used to image so many drives with DD back in my helpdesk days…

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        11 months ago

        dd does not stand for “disk duplicator”. That’s a modern backronymization that doesn’t reflect the original general usage of the command which is to “convert and copy”. Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      I just make use of my paranoia, so I triple and quadruple check. Then get a coffee and quadruple check again. Never messed up once

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      11 months ago

      It’s even easier to prevent confusion if you use /dev/disk/by-id/ id’s, it only took a few times of overwriting the wrong disk to figure that out.

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          11 months ago

          Not sure if it is equal on all distros but on every one I have used it’s a readable string of muliple components. One of them is “usb” for a usb mass storage, so if it is the only one you have connected to your computer it is very obvious. For like sata disks it has the manufacturer and serial on it so you can match what drive it is you want to write to. Also, the name is pretty unique (on your sysytem at least, globally I don’t know), so even if you swap hardware around, you cannot write to the wrong storage if you got the right name. Like “sdb” can be reassigned, but the id is an id.

  • foyrkopp@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Anyone who hits enter on a dd command without triple-checking it gets exactly what they deserve.