β² 967 βΌ usb formatting (sh.itjust.works) submitted 2 years ago by SkySyrup@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 54 comments fedilink hide all child comments shamelessly stolen from nixCraft on mastodon
[+] rattking@lemmy.ml 95 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) I actually did this once. My USB was on /dev/sda instead of sdb and I didn't bother to check. It took me like 2 days to fix it because you can't just delete partitions and start over normally, it changes some flags on your drive that you need to manually reset for them to be usable again. Fun times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] psion1369@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago I once mistyped and didn't realize until it was done that I wrote a Fedora ISO to the home partition. I didn't even realize what I did until everything was done and wiped out. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) I actually did this once. My USB was on /dev/sda instead of sdb and I didn't bother to check. It took me like 2 days to fix it because you can't just delete partitions and start over normally, it changes some flags on your drive that you need to manually reset for them to be usable again. Fun times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] psion1369@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago I once mistyped and didn't realize until it was done that I wrote a Fedora ISO to the home partition. I didn't even realize what I did until everything was done and wiped out. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] psion1369@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago I once mistyped and didn't realize until it was done that I wrote a Fedora ISO to the home partition. I didn't even realize what I did until everything was done and wiped out. permalink fedilink source parent
