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[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The problem is that i didn't mean to write to the hdd, but to a usb stick; i typed the wrong letter out of habit from the old pc.

As for the hard drives, I'm already trying to do that, for bigger files i just break them up with split. I'm just waiting until i have enough disks to do that.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

The problem is that i didn’t mean to write to the hdd, but to a usb stick; i typed the wrong letter out of habit from the old pc.

For that issue, I recommend never using unstable device names and always using /dev/disk/by-id/.

As for the hard drives, I’m already trying to do that, for bigger files i just break them up with split. I’m just waiting until i have enough disks to do that.

I'd highly recommend to start backing up the most important data ASAP rather than waiting to be able to back up all data.

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