I'm in a bit of a pickle, and it's entirely of my own making. What I'm
experiencing is not a terribly serious problem, but it is annoying and I want
to fix it.
I was copying an .iso onto a bootable USB drive using the "DD" command... or
so I intended. In actuality, I accidentially copied
Wouldn't be better for you to use gparted or Gnome disk utility? But if you
really want to use dd, at least try to format the disk with gparted, and try
again.
i once lost 3TiB of data for the same reason. I did'd 2 drives in my RAID 5
volume, consisting of 3 drives. no backups
look into setting up rsync cronjob for regular backups, onto another system.
As an example, I have an Rsync cron job that, once per month, asks to
backup some predefined locations and turn the result into a .tar.gz
file. It currently does only whole backups (because I don't want to care
for dead or moved files once I restore some backup) but it does what I
want for now. :)
Testdisk can always help on a rainy day though.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
