Yesterday late at night I was preparing a live USB. I used dd
to write the image file to my sdb partition, but in a fast copy-paste I ended up setting of=sdb
instead of of=/dev/sdb
.
I noticed (thanks to Thunar’s bottom left indicator for remaining space available) that my SSD storage was decreasing, and managed to abort the terminal after only 1 GB was “written” (as inferred from the decrease in space, and declared by dd
after I Ctrl+C
'ed).
This morning I have rebooted my system and everything seemed to be working fine, and gparted
and fdisk
do not highlight any evident anomaly in the partitions.
Do I have reasons to fear I may have corrupted my data?
Is anyone aware of what happens when dd
is given a non-existent destination - as “sdb
”, in my case?
Thank you in advance!