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Created Linux instalation flashdrive on my notebook like thousand times before. Simple dd if=img of=/dev/sdb . Tried installing system from it but somehow doesn't work. And the it hit me. I have both magmetic drive and SSD in my laptop! So insted of flashdrive, I have bootable beging of my SSD where my encrypted lvm used to be :-( Luckilly I lost just EFI, boot, swap, rootfs, few git repositories and ccache.

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  • 1
    That's why I always remove and insert the USB drive a few dozen times while running
    watch -n1 "ls /dev/sd*"
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    I could have just checked it, but didn't even occured to me that sdb could be anything else than flashdrive...
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    Happened 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 😭!
    Now I know how to install arch properly!
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    If you have a magmatic drive your pc is probably overheating.
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    @misiman sounds like heaps of fun restoring from that.
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    @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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