Quoting Ian Zimmerman (i...@very.loosely.org): > Last year I nearly lost all my image and audio data, some 100G. I guess > that's small potatoes today, but anyway _very_ valuable to me. It > happened because I gave the wrong /dev/sd* name in a dd command when I > was putting something on a stick, maybe it was Tails or something like > it. If only I had listened to my nagging inner voice and looked at > /dev/disk/by-id first, I'd have been okay.
I'm a lot more concerned about servers, personally, and am not going to permit overengineered software on my server just because someone couldn't bother looking at 'dmesg | tail' before running dd against an SD card. (I do detachable backups to external USB hard drives, and make a point of doing 'dmesg | tail' before mounting, to make sure it really is /dev/sdc1 this time.) -- Cheers, Rick Moen Diaeresis: Keeping the cow out of co-worker since 700 AD. r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
