I can't believe I did that

[ChefIronBelly]

It was late last night low light conditions (that's my story sticking with it)

I went to put some music on and thought I have moc up but instead had mc up. Well that didn't work so well, and the message was something about missing driver or something. I spent 10 minutes chasing my tail before I realized what I had done.

Anybody else want to confess?

[rust collector]

Umm, no?

[DebianJoe]

Sure

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dd if=linuxbbq_coal.iso of=/dev/sda

...and the USB was /dev/sdb.

[franksinistra]

^ saddest thing i've heard these past few days

[kexolino]

Did the same exact thing as Joe 'bout two years ago. Bad times.

[machinebacon]

sudo mv stuff1 stuff2 =/= sudo cp stuff1 stuff2

[dkeg]

I also did the dd to sda mistake. It's documented in the forums somewhere.

[bones]

I'm sure my OS missteps could fill a large book. Fortunately, I have forgotten them.

[wuxmedia]

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sudo rm -r /*/share/

Or some such mismatch.
wow that was effective, certainly got rid of the files.

[Verändert]

You are no real Linux user if you never f**ked up your sda with dd. Been there, done that, haven't found the t-shirt yet.

[ivanovnegro]

^ Actually I did not fuck up wit dd *yet*. But then I started to use it later in my Linux career, already prepared with the horror stories in mind.

But sure I did something stupid, too, but like Bones I cannot remember what.

[rhowaldt]

^ this because apparently Bones, Ivo and myself hold the same philosophy when it comes to Linux mistakes: if you make a really stupid mistake, drink heavily, and forgetaboutit.

[wuxmedia]

^ Heheh, I normally do those steps in the reverse order. 8)
not limited to linux mistakes either.

[machinebacon]

As a thumb of rule ;) always test your commands without "sudo" or "su" :D
And if you change the content of files: comment, comment, comment :)

[ChefIronBelly]

If they had a most wanted list for killing a mbr I would close to the top. I guess the bright side is you learn to recover fast from about anything.

[machinebacon]

Killing and fixing the MBR is something that should be taught in schools. I shot it at least 10 times, or even more. Especially at dual-boot times, back in the 1970s :D

[ChefIronBelly]

^ true dat

So how many ops in your grub now? me only 4 you must have a shite load.

Back in the DOS days I went to format a floppy disk. Some how ended up formatting C: Ooops and it was a customers computer.

[machinebacon]

On the laptop 6 OS', on the desktop only 17 (after my main HDD committed suicide -- no, wasn't a fucked MBR) - actually every newer BBQ spin gets its own partition, and I have some other OS' running, too.

Fucking up the customers computer is bad style :D Are you working as PC tech?

[ivanovnegro]

Ok, I have one anecdote but it is from my childhood. I once installed Opensuse I think it was, on a Windows machine, of course I got all that partitioning wrong and Suse ate the whole home computer. Luckily my father had a friend that fixed the machine. He asked me what I did and I said, nothing, the computer just do not boot anymore. I have no idea what he thought, he just installed Windows again. Sure is, he saw that I tried to partition the hard disk.
That was my very very first step into Linux, a big fail. :D Many many years later I did it again and also deleted Windows entirely but on purpose, the rest is history.

[machinebacon]

^ Maybe you smoked Melange that day :D