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What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 102 points 3 years ago (9 children)

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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  • [+] 15 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On Linux I use https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB to create windows flash drives.. works uhh most of the time? :D In case you hadn't heard of it :)

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years 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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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