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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Yeah, it's very easy to mix up /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. Did it once and have PTSD from it, I triple-check every time now and still feel uneasy every time.
Use "lsblk -o UUID,LABEL,NAME" and "/dev/disk/by-uuid/" next time.
Super paranoid about it, so it never happened to me ;)
there's /Dev/disk-by/
look into that directory
Not yet, but I live in fear.
I did make the mistake of mounting a drive while I was in the middle of formatting another one. It just halted the operation so it wasn’t too bad, but I try to be more careful now.
I just always do an fdisk -l beforehand and doublecheck witch partition/drive I'm writing to
It never happened to me thankfully, I always check with lsblk first. Otherwise if you usually write distros to USB or SD cards, you should probably use safer tools, some have nice GUI.
No but when configuring dual-boot, I've deleted the Windows root or boot partition several times. Took me a bit to learn how to boot Windows with systemd-boot. I don't write any ISO's from my PC anymore. I use an app on my Android called EtchDroid. It'll write any Linux ISO I've put through it. You just have to format the SD card in device care first.
I started doing this because I've rendered my system unbootable in the past. I bought an external USB-C to SD card adapter and it's saved me a few times. Now that I built my system and configured it, I don't have this issue. I used to keep multiple ISO's on my Android I could write within seconds and then boot on my PC. dd is great if you have a system you keep ISO's on