23 ago Gam Zashuiba TIFU copypasting code from Lost 20 years of memories THIS IS A REPOST FROM r/HomeServer Original post. (1 wanted to reach more people so they don't make the same mistake) TLDR: (po

23 ago Gam
Zashuiba
TIFU copypasting code from Lost 20
years of memories
THIS IS A REPOST FROM r/HomeServer Original post. (1
wanted to reach more people so they don't make the same
mistake)
TLDR: (potentially) lost 20 years of family memories
because copy pasted one code line from DeepSeek.
building an 8 HDD server and so far everything was
going great. The HDDs were re-used from old computers
had around the house, because on a very tight budget.
So tight even other relatives had to help to reach the 8 HDD
mark.
decided to collect all valuable pictures and docs into 1 of
the HDDs, for convenience. don't have any external HDDs
with that kind of size (1TiB) for backup.
was curious and wanted to check the drive's speeds.
knew they were going to be quite crappy, given their age.
And so, asked DeepSeek and it gave me this answer:
fio --name=test --filename=/dev/sdX --ioengine=
replace /dev/sdX with your drive
boy, was that fucker wrong. was stupid enough not to
get suspicious about the arg not actually pointing
to a file. Well, turns out this just writes random garbage all
over the drive. Because was not given any warning,
proceeded to run this command on ALL 8 drives. Note the
argument "гапагм/", yes this means bytes are written in
completely random locations. and also decided to
increase the runtime to for more accuracy. At around
3MiBps, yeah that's 90MiB of shit smeared all over my
precious files.
All partition tables gone. Currently running photorec.... let's
see if can at least recover something...
*UPDATE: After running photorec for more than 30 hours
and after a lot of manual inspection. can confidently say
I've managed to recover most of the relevant pictures and
videos (without filenames nor metadata). Many have been
lost, but most have been recovered. hope this serves a
lesson for future Jorge.
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