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@620hun every command involving /dev/s, otherwise i'd get frustrated really quick ^^"
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@YouAreAPIRate it was my old laptop so luckily there's nothing important in there. Need to be really careful next time 😁
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py2js33817yOnce on one of my projects I typed sudo rm -rf /bin instead of sudo rm -rf bin thankfully it was bin otherwise I could have been more...
Linux gives you so much freedom, for example the freedom to fuck your system.
When i was experimenting with bootsticks i typed the following in the terminal:
sudo dd if=bootstick.iso of=/dev/sdb
Where is the mistake? The usb-stick was already plugged in at boot-time and since it was bootable linux mint named it /dev/sda.
You propably already realized it, i wrote the iso the my harddrive. My attempts to restore the partition-table failed, but luckily the kernel still had it in memory and i was able to backup my files via nautilus.
Still, i nearly had a heart attack
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