Post B0LgJnjAFmheqlR3WS by Reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info
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(DIR) Post #B0LfR3Rm6i8bfzCFDE by prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
2025-11-17T17:35:30.865642Z
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I will never be comfortable using /dev/sda as a target for dd no matter how long I use NVME drives.
(DIR) Post #B0LgJnjAFmheqlR3WS by Reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info
2025-11-17T17:49:26.488378Z
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@prettygood haha, `dd of=/dev/sd*` go brr
(DIR) Post #B0LgK7ipuiKArXR4mu by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-11-17T17:51:26Z
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@prettygood THEY’RE NOT SCSI. EVERYTHING IS A LIE.
(DIR) Post #B0LgKFLNZoJYV6WSKu by prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
2025-11-17T21:16:13.084578Z
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@rk real
(DIR) Post #B0LgKewoNm6xuRECeW by argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-17T17:52:20Z
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@prettygood Using dd makes me nervous in general.Maybe I should start using some GUI program to write disk images…
(DIR) Post #B0LgMPKzOJcg4hN2Ke by prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
2025-11-17T21:16:32.993206Z
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@argv_minus_one KDE's image writer is nice when I'm being lazy
(DIR) Post #B0LgMvK2TNsPH1AjIG by vekkq@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-17T18:15:30Z
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@prettygood I just use cp for devices~
(DIR) Post #B0LgNKHlexukhDIliy by thedaemon@snac.9front.club
2025-11-17T18:59:58Z
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I panic and verify like 3 times when I'm doing that.
(DIR) Post #B0Lh1Q3XclfkAzlVh2 by argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-17T17:53:00Z
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@rk Yeah, what's up with that? PATA used /dev/hd* but SATA for some reason uses /dev/sd* instead.@prettygood
(DIR) Post #B0Lh1RjlNH2XOEWk8u by CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems
2025-11-17T21:22:45Z
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@argv_minus_one @rk @prettygood As I Understand It (poorly)They re-mapped it to all be in /dev/sdX after the SATA drivers in the kernel just kind of took over from IDE as the primary "type of hard disk" likely to be encountered. I think somewhere in the 2.6 kernel series? That's also why the old driver has "DEPRECATED" everywhere
(DIR) Post #B0Lh1agu5H6H9yG5R2 by mhoye@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T21:22:48Z
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@prettygood Anxiety and triple checking every single time.
(DIR) Post #B0LhQ3nlVExoOY8UF6 by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-11-17T21:28:15Z
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@CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @prettygood IDE is “integrated drive electronics”…They all have integrated electronics! ALL DRIVES ARE IDE I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
(DIR) Post #B0LhRVh9HX9DC5jTQO by screwlisp@gamerplus.org
2025-11-17T21:25:04Z
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@mhoye unplug and plug in the device a couple times while watching hardware messages, until you feel confident that it will be your own fault when you nuke an irreplaceable device@prettygood
(DIR) Post #B0LhZmPqzt83N0aPBo by prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
2025-11-17T21:30:11.897388Z
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@charlotte @argv_minus_one @rk @CursedSilicon today I learned
(DIR) Post #B0Li3bP4VS99u1ROAy by mhoye@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T21:30:32Z
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@prettygood I set up a thing where I just run dmesg perpetually on tty11, so I can always watch stuff like that happen.
(DIR) Post #B0LjopeTRsGreqjJNA by ludonaut@timetheft.social
2025-11-17T21:44:48Z
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@prettygood @mhoye same, even when i use /dev/disk/by-id/nvme... i still double and triple check lsblk and dmesg, the anxiety never really goes away
(DIR) Post #B0LlO2tQJIMooX4qvo by vivi@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2025-11-17T17:42:39.410Z
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@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer non of these words are in the bible
(DIR) Post #B0M543jXTQ1EiFCWcy by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-11-18T01:50:06Z
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@prettygood I'm confused, certainly for me on Linux, my NVMe drives appear as /dev/nvme* rather than sd*. And I try and use /dev/disk/by-path or id or label or anything to avoid using /dev/sd* since it is slightly clearer which drive it is.
(DIR) Post #B0M59V59DgXkyqu2b2 by prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
2025-11-18T01:54:21.106182Z
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@penguin42 sure, that's the point. It used to be that /dev/sda was your primary boot disk when we were all using SATA attached disks. And those dev nodes didn't always exist, especially before the v4 kernels.
(DIR) Post #B0M7XD4m17ldzhA3Si by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-11-18T02:14:58Z
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@prettygood Oh yeh, way back they were /dev/hd* when they were IDE compatible interfaces, and in VMs you often get lots of other things (like /dev/vda for virtio block devices)
(DIR) Post #B0M7Yixww8A7BkgvsO by prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
2025-11-18T02:21:19.368696Z
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@penguin42 yeah I'm showing my age with this post for sure.
(DIR) Post #B0PCw5z2beAsTw2sJU by piegames@flausch.social
2025-11-19T13:51:10Z
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@prettygood it should be like in Windows where the A and B drive are still reserved for legacy reasons so it starts counting at C
(DIR) Post #B0PCxOE2GjhfLbfynA by uint8_t@chaos.social
2025-11-19T08:47:38Z
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@prettygood lsblk, sudo chmod 666 the target, double check with lsblk, then run dd without sudo 🙂