Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?

DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to Linux@lemmy.ml – 136 points –

I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files... and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think... It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though...

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Accidentally flashed a live image (PCBSD, IIRC) onto my 1TB external HDD instead of the thumb drive. Lost years of collected music and movies that night. I learned two things:

  1. Don't do this sort of thing in the middle of the night, when you're tired and should be sleeping.
  2. dd is nicknamed 'disk destroyer' for good reason.

😵‍💫 the 3am tinkering, it calls to me 😵‍💫

Never dd at 3am, kids.

Not done it at 3am but have dd'd to the wrong disk late in the evening, possibly after a few vinos

Fortunately my laptop only has nvmes built in, so 99% of the time all 3am me has to do is not type nvme and I'm good

  1. Disconnect all other drives

Late to the party but this why I like Ventoy. It only looks for removable drives and then all you do is drag and drop your live images onto the removable drive. Pretty hard to mess anything up.

Oh, am I talking to myself? Hah.

Yeah, I wish I had all the stuff I torrented in high school. Lost treasure.