Not a problem: you can always format the correct one later.
If you format them all, you make sure you got the one you wanted.
The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse
…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse
but if you are chatgpt, then this is great way how to keep your cheese on pizza!
unless you want to make your day a lot more fun
your day becomes so bad that it overflows and wraps around
You know I’m all 'bout that carry bit!
Being a noob helps me there. I’ll boot into a live environment off a usb stick and use gparted if it’s local. But obviously that’s a lot harder via SSH
Hands up if you have done this at least once in your life…
I’m so terrified about it that I check dozens of times before running it. So, no.
But I’m a repeat offender with
rm -rf * .oThat’s how I deleted my downloads folder once.
I will check the command 4 times for something like that and still fuck it up.
Somehow in thirty years I have never done that. I did however one time pull a drive that wasn’t done with its cached writes.
True pain, and totally avoidable too
Like getting overconfident and dying to one of the starter grunts in Demon’s Souls.
Like walking to the table with a plate full of steaming chive dumplings only to catch the corner of the plate on a wall and watch your dumps go tumblo all over and dog eats them and is definitely going to have the shits in the middle of the night
Always unplug all other disks before formatting, iron rule.
Let’s unplug the system drive while formatting the intended drive.
You have three options:
O1: Your OS lives basically in the RAM anyway.
O2: Get rekt
O3: You can’t formart your system drive because it’s mounted from/dev/nvme0p
Just use nvme drives and this will never happen to you again!
Except you now have 2-3 numbers to correctly remember instead of one char
My motherboard has two NVMe slots. I imagine that if I’d had the funds and desire to populate both of them, this same issue could rear its ugly head.
No, because they aren’t mapped under /dev/sdX ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
Yeah!
/dev/nvmeXnYpZwarrants another meme and is not covered by the terms of this memetic service.
Please subscribe to the other service to fulfil your requirements.
You do have a backup, don’t you? /s
This happened when I tried to install Mint for a dual boot on my PC with two drives. It wasn’t fun.
This is why I always unplug the other drive before I install Linux, because the one time I didn’t I couldn’t boot the other OS anymore.
I didn’t format the wrong drive, but the Linux installer automatically detected the existing EFI partition and just overwrote it. Luckily, that was the only issue and I was able to recreate the EFI partition, and it taught me a lesson that I will never forget.
I fucking hate samba.
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And you still got it wrong?
Don’t know about op but me? Yes
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