<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Damn it, dd! Stop doing what I say! Or at least warn me... Ugh...<br><br>I ~meant~: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc<br>but I said: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb<br><br>/dev/sdb ~had~ important stuph on it.<br><br>Now, it has an in-determinate amount of garbage copied verbatim from /dev/sda, as much as it could copy before I read what I'd written, shrieked, and filled the keyboard buffer with <CTRL>+c's followed by some important stuph I might never see again.<br><br>Sigh...<br><br>I think step 0 of my "get some back" plan is to zero out the bit of /dev/sdb that matches /dev/sda, in order to get rid of the bogus information at the beginning of the disk. Anyone have a script handy?<br><br>Links for when I get to steps 1-99?<br><br><span><span name="x"></span>David L. Willson<br>Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast<br>RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP<br>tel://720.333.LANS<br>Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux.<span name="x"></span><br></span><br></div></body></html>