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What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while? (lemmy.world)

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[-] radix@lemm.ee 103 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Classic, “what the fuck did I do here and why did I think this was a good idea,” material.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

I am in this comment and I don't like it.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] QuillanFae@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Okay, almost done. rm -rf ./*. Wait... pwd. Shit.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was doing phyical maintenance on a old laptop of mine where I fried a cable because I plugged the battery in and forgot to plug that cable in but I forgot to unplug the battery before plugging that cable in and ended up frying a cable when plugging it back in

Luckily it was only the cable that got fried

But that's in the past now

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.fmhy.net 9 points 10 months ago

Are you me, I have experienced this 2 days ago

[-] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I am so sorry... is it okay now?

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.fmhy.net 4 points 10 months ago

It went okay but I had trouble sleeping

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] radix@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

That's smart.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

😭😭😭 imagine you're the reason why

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe, at least i submitted a github issue about that and it got fixed

[-] hactar42@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I am so sorry for this ordeal. It's so funny though.

[-] morriscox@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Or df in Diskpart.

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023

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