• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    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

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      Like getting overconfident and dying to one of the starter grunts in Demon’s Souls.

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        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

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      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.

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          Yeah!

          /dev/nvmeXnYpZ warrants another meme and is not covered by the terms of this memetic service.
          Please subscribe to the other service to fulfil your requirements.

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      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

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    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.

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      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.

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    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