R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:🧉 on Nostr: I just did the thing YOU NEVER, EVER DO. I repeated a dd command (under doas to root) ...

I just did the thing YOU NEVER, EVER DO.

I repeated a dd command (under doas to root) WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE DEVICE NAME.

*FORTUNATELY*, the only collateral damage was an unneeded 4GB file under /dev/.

*PHEW!!!*

P.S... do files created in /dev somehow make it to /, even though it's its own mountpoint? How does that work?