Spyke
feddit.de

Why would you put a file system on the drive if you dd a disto image?

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edricreply
lemm.ee

Maybe “fdisk -l” could be the first panel, then move the original to the second panel.

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lemmy.world

I've also seen this meme format having the same text on the third and fourth pane.

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gruereply

Well it would, except it was stored on /dev/sda1...

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Me staring blankly for two panes trying to figure out what happened works too :-)

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He didn't. But yes, the joke doesn't really work here.

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jroid8reply
lemmy.world

I have been using Linux for 3 years,

And I just learned this from your comment

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Andrewreply
mander.xyz

That's kind of great, because root is not intended for regular users.

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Nazreply
lemmy.one

How can that be true when nearly every command asks for root, including regular system updates? E.g: Sudo apt-get upgrade

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That's what "sudo" does, it basically means run this as if you were logged in as root.

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Probably, dd doesn't care. dd does what it is told.

Though there would probably be some weird effects.

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bdonvrreply
thelemmy.club

Sure it will, to the iso you just overwrote your boot drive with lmao

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programming.dev

Shhh let's pretend we are for Groo's sake here.

Although in all seriousness, my desktop has both: a 512 GB NVMe where the OS and apps are installed and a 2 TB 7200 rpm HDD where I dump data and some slower games.

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It's insane how much more affordable NVMEs are. When I got my 2tb it was almost three times as much as it is now.

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Though, why formating a partition when it's completely overriden in the very next command. Also you won't be able to boot it anyways, you should flash the entire disk, not a partition.

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lemmy.ml

After wiping a backup drive, I decided to only use /dev/disk/{by-id,by-label}/ now, it is longer, but much less error prone.

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This is dumb, the is no point in using mkfs just before dding an ISO on a drive, even if it is the wrong one.

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programming.dev

That was just an extra step to fit this 4 layer meme format. fdisk -l on the first would have been better instead as others have pointed out.

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That, but also the canvas on the last 2 could have just been blank too. It's common in this format, and also makes sense

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