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31415098yThat's why I always remove and insert the USB drive a few dozen times while running
watch -n1 "ls /dev/sd*" -
somebody7318yI could have just checked it, but didn't even occured to me that sdb could be anything else than flashdrive...
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sak9625728yHappened to me when I tried to install arch Linux!
Accidentally wiped off all partitions!
That to during exams!
Well had to read all nots in mobile ðŸ˜!
Now I know how to install arch properly! -
somebody7318y@magicMirror I could try, given I probably lost in reality just boot, EFI and swap, but restoring partition table, then encrypted volume then LVM... Will just reinstal, most important data without backup are luckilly on the other drive.
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