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dd is one of the most dangerous ones I was thinking of. I hadn't even thought of swapping if and of though, just mistyping the target drive. I would feel so much safer choosing from a list of the drives shown with good identifying info like their manufacturer, size, serial number, and known partitions.


There’s a reason they call it “disk destroyer”.




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