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just leave some RAM (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by iloveDigit@piefed.social to c/linux_memes@programming.dev

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[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good news is it's much harder to accidentally wipe/fragment all your files than it is to break your system

If anything is lost right now, you might be able to get it back just by booting from a live USB to explore your file system

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, but the problem is that it's not that hard to wipe your personal files incidentially. An operating system can be replaced easily without deleting your /home partition (you did create an extra /home partition, did you?) but your personal stuff not so much.
And that's why there's three things you should never forget:

have a backup
have an automated backup (or you'll end up having no backup at all)
have a tested way to restore from backup

Just argue against that fact, blame me of incompetence, know it all better, I'll just laugh at you because you will as sure as the sun rises in the morning remember my words. Three times if you're missing a single one of these three. Don't ask why I am so definitely sure about that - let's say it was a three step learning process...

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I won't nitpick when your overall point is "have a backup" 💯

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Having a backup is not enough. Having an actual backup is better but still not enough. Having a tested recovery procedure is not trivial but usually is enough. I have not yet experienced the case when even that fails and I hope I never will.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

I see, well nothing is at risk really since I moved everything to a different drive before trying this whole thing, and did a full backup on an external drive as well. I've been burnt before! and I'm absolutely going to use a live image to wipe the disk because for some reason, I thought I had installed Nobara over Bazzite but I can still boot Bazzite... anyway, big mess

Thanks for the help !!