[clue] Oops, I did it again...

[David L. Willson]

#, not $, of course. 

David L. Willson 
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast 
RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP 
tel://720.333.LANS 
Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux. 

----- Original Message -----

> Damn it, dd! Stop doing what I say! Or at least warn me... Ugh...

> I ~meant~: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc
> but I said: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

> /dev/sdb ~had~ important stuph on it.

> Now, it has an in-determinate amount of garbage copied verbatim from
> /dev/sda, as much as it could copy before I read what I'd written,
> shrieked, and filled the keyboard buffer with <CTRL>+c's followed by
> some important stuph I might never see again.

> Sigh...

> I think step 0 of my "get some back" plan is to zero out the bit of
> /dev/sdb that matches /dev/sda, in order to get rid of the bogus
> information at the beginning of the disk. Anyone have a script
> handy?

> Links for when I get to steps 1-99?

> David L. Willson
> Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
> RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP
> tel://720.333.LANS
> Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux.

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