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[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 90 points 2 years ago

You know I'm something of a sysadmin myself

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 years ago

Omg, me too. πŸ«‚

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Welcome to the business!

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 years ago
[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Holly heavens! You have created something I couldn't even see in my most enlightened visions

[-] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 37 points 2 years ago
[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Back when disk compressors (Stacker, DoubleSpace, and such) were a thing I was cleaning my 85MB hard drive to make space for some games, found some massive file I wasn't using, and promptly deleted it, which did indeed free a lot of space.

Way too much, in fact.

Turns out DriveSpace or whatever Stacker clone Microsoft had built into DOS somehow exposed the file in which it stored the compressed file system within the compressed system itself, allowing the user to delete it if they were stupid enough. So, when I deleted it, hilarity ensued.

In the end I think I was somehow able to recover the drive by booting from a floppy and using undelete or something like that, but it was a learning experience to say the least.

Damn, I miss those good old times.

[-] _different_username@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That was what happened to our data on the "family computer". My parents were not happy with me that day.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

How I feel after removing the system itself (it was all bloat) (I can now live a carefree life, free of computers)

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The root folder contains mostly everything, including the system

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I usually just eat the system

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I usually just eat the hard drives, I don't like the taste of the batteries and the capacitors

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I mean the physical system

[-] conc@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

The time I sudo chown -R conc:conc / because why bother with perms

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 2 years ago

Good enough for MS-DOS, good enough for me.

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I usually just eat the hard drive

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

first time trying Linux, installed Ubuntu. Over a few months I made a few mistakes but nothing major... untill I tried to delete VLC. Saw on some random forum that something called MKV was better. Googled how to delete a package and it turns out I deleted every dependency for VLC and not VLC itself. Totally nuked everything.

[-] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Did something similar when I was still learning Linux. Had some issue with Python. Decided to reinstall it. Did a force remove and my computer restarted immediately. I was brought back into a shell but basically nothing worked right. Turns out Python is a dependency for a lot of things in Ubuntu. Who knew? :D

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Is that what Norman's hair is supposed to look like in the comics?

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

I literally just tonight tried to move some virtual disks and mounts around on a VM and caused it to become unbootable.

Luckily I had all the important configs backed up with rclone so it was easier to just recreate the VM for me.

[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

You feel like Willem DaRapper?

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I feel as if I have achieved something great, something extraordinary

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The ultimate debloating

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

500GB drive costs what? About $40?

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

It was never about the money

I usually just eat the hard drive

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Just think of all the hentai you can fit on the drive once you delete all the bloat!

[-] introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

I can delete system32 folder on archlinux and run sudo rm -rf /* on windows

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I usually just eat the hard drive

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Scooping up a root folder alias without noticing and dumping it in the trash icon.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

How i feel after removing all the bloat from my system (i own a mac and deleted my downloads folder)

[-] bali10050@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

How can you use a mac? It feels like a really unoptimised gnome, and your keyboard is all messed up

[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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