• radix@lemm.ee
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    Don’t mess around with partitions on your disk when it’s past midnight, you’re extremely stressed, and you don’t have (easily accessible) backups.

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      Yes, that does sound like good advice even from a morning, first coffee is brewing kind of viewpoint.

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        Yeah, all I did do right was have Windows on a USB. That’s important because I don’t have another Windows machine. Manjaro can be downloaded as a .iso and burned onto a flash drive from any OS, but not so with Windows.

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      1 year ago

      Additionally don’t do maintenance on your computers when tired, learned from experience

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      Ha, I don’t fuck around with anything that make break my PC or phone until a weekend with no commitments comes up.

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      I once tried partitioning the disk i was running on because i was new and didnt know that wouldn’t work, cfdisk now has a warning if you try to do that

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      I had to extend the boot drive on a VM that also happened to run the application our entire company used to make products. This was back in the day when extending VM drives took forever because of the way the hypervisor worked. I only had a small window to do this between our Europe plants going offline and the US plants starting up.

      So I used a community tool that would extend the drive in seconds. Turn the VM back on and queue “NTLDR is missing”. I also discovered that the backups for that server hadn’t completed successfully in so long there was nothing to restore from. In my effort to save 30-45 minutes, cost me 8 hours completely rebuilding the server and a day of lost production in the US plants.