Good day all,
> > Also, I would like to point out that it might be useful to offer a
> > hint or two at how to distinguish the disks in such cases...
>
> I would be more than happy to offer such hints, if I knew them. Ideas
> about this are welcome.
All I can say is that this is a genuine fear of mine almost
every time I start a ddrescue process, such to the point where
I invariably first do an image creation to a temporary
drive/server and *then* write the captured image to the new
drive. It takes twice the time, but you have the advantage of
having a backup image and you don't need to worry about
mistakes since one parameter is the drive /dev/sdX, the other
is a file/image.
For when I really *must* do a drive-to-drive all I can suggest
is to examine the brand/model of the drive and compare it to
the output in hdparm -i
~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda
Model=ST9750420AS, FwRev=0001SDM5, SerialNo=6WS30ZXA
It's a risky process, so the only thing you can do is to triple
check all your settings *before* pressing enter.
Good luck.
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