Dear everyone,
when trying to write an image to a USB stick I accidentally chose the wrong device. I'm using a variant of Debian and formatted / wrote through the Disks GUI. It offered 3 separate volumes: my internal hard disk (which is safe for now), a 9.4 GB Block Device (which I accidentally overwrote) and the USB stick (which I should have chosen).
So far my computer is running fine, so I'm hopeful that I either didn't erase something vital or that I can still repair it before rebooting. The rather embarassing problem is that I don't even really know what I erased and thus struggle to search for instructions on what to do next. I feel like it may be a Swapfile? There is a partition on my hard disk with the same size as the unindentified block device, however since it is being displayed separately in the Disks GUI I'm not sure.
Can anyone give me a clue how to tell if it was indeed the Swapfile and if so, how to repair it safely? Or maybe it's something entirely else?
Thanks for any help on this in advance.
when trying to write an image to a USB stick I accidentally chose the wrong device. I'm using a variant of Debian and formatted / wrote through the Disks GUI. It offered 3 separate volumes: my internal hard disk (which is safe for now), a 9.4 GB Block Device (which I accidentally overwrote) and the USB stick (which I should have chosen).
So far my computer is running fine, so I'm hopeful that I either didn't erase something vital or that I can still repair it before rebooting. The rather embarassing problem is that I don't even really know what I erased and thus struggle to search for instructions on what to do next. I feel like it may be a Swapfile? There is a partition on my hard disk with the same size as the unindentified block device, however since it is being displayed separately in the Disks GUI I'm not sure.
Can anyone give me a clue how to tell if it was indeed the Swapfile and if so, how to repair it safely? Or maybe it's something entirely else?
Thanks for any help on this in advance.