So today I did about the stupidest thing I could have done at the time. I was planning on clearing my USB hard drive so I could start my new backup plan on it. Of course any Linux geek knows the easy way to erase a hard drive is to do a ‘dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1′. On almost all my computer there is only one hard drive which maps to /dev/sda. Of course you know exactly where I’m going here don’t you? So this is my home server with two hard drive combines into one volume group. The first hard drive is /dev/sda, the second /dev/sdb and the USB hard drive got mapped to /dev/sdc. So in my case that command obliterated the first 125Mb of my second drive before I [...]