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True pain, and totally avoidable too
Like getting overconfident and dying to one of the starter grunts in Demon’s Souls.
Somehow in thirty years I have never done that. I did however one time pull a drive that wasn’t done with its cached writes.
The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse
Always unplug all other disks before formatting, iron rule.
Just use nvme drives and this will never happen to you again!
Except you now have 2-3 numbers to correctly remember instead of one char
