On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 21:12 -0600, home user via users wrote: > Just before trying to upgrade from F-40 to F-41, I did a back-up to a > USB 3 stick. Too late now, but never consider a USB stick as a back-up. It's flakey technology. I only use them as sneakernet tech. I don't know if "dd" can be used to try to duplicate a failed drive over to something else to safely experiment on a rescue. There is a "ddrescue" tool with that kind of thing in mind. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
