Good advice. Thank you.
Yep, reinstalling worked.
I avoid this type of mistakes using # whenever I am doing something delicate
The symbol # is for comments so if you do
$ # sudo command
Nothing will happen because of the # after I did that I make sure everything
is well written by pressing up and then when I am sure everything is OK is
when
I can confirm that photorec is gold, pure gold. It will recover 99% of your
data. But then again you have it backed up so I don't see how waiting 20
hours for it to finish (recovery takes a lot of time) makes any sense here.
Reinstall and profit!
Thanks. I reformatted the USB drive and re-burnt the ISO and now I'm able to
boot it and am installing.
Well, you have a backup, so it's not that bad. Reinstall Trisquel, and
restore your backup. To boot from your USB drive, just use your BIOS options.
You can also use GRUB (edit one of the existing entries).
I think I screwed up really bad. In following a tutorial on clearing a USB
drive using 'dd' I accidentally typed 'sda' instead of 'sdb' and cleared the
ext4 partition instead because I am a f*cking idiot. I don't have enough
knowledge to know exactly how bad this is, but I believe that I just