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   Double_Virgule 🍁🍂 (double_virgule@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 10:29:35 JST Double_Virgule 🍁🍂

   Actually, while I'm here, though, I had an odd thing happen to me the other day that might be a cautionary tale.

   I have a handful of computers, and they're all for different things. I have a Windows 10 PC I use for Windows-only apps, a Raspberry Pi running Volumio as a media player, a System76 laptop that currently runs PopOs!, an old HP laptop that runs Windows 11, and a big beefy PC that runs #Ubuntu for my file backup/Docker host. And, of course, my Windows 11 work laptop.

   The System76 laptop is my main personal driver, but I'm busy enough that I only log into it once a week or so. There were so many things that needed to update each time I logged on (Discord, for one), that I got into the (bad?) habit of running this command every time I logged in after a while:

   sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo autoremove && sudo reboot

   Worked fine for a few months. Then one day, I logged in an hour before my DND game, ran that command, and... my laptop wouldn't boot.

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 10:29:29 JST phiofx

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     @double_virgule yeah dist-upgrade is not something to run casually on autopilot. Regular upgrades should be ok though.

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     Double_Virgule 🍁🍂 (double_virgule@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 10:29:34 JST Double_Virgule 🍁🍂

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     I was able to get to a recovery mode, and it looked like my OS was gone. The whole partition was missing from my hard drive.

     I have had some weird issues with this #System76 laptop since I bought it during the pandemic, but nothing this severe. I tried scanning for it, making sure it hasn't become unmounted somehow or something weird. It was just gone.

     I ended up just wiping the whole disk and reinstalling another version of #linux. Thankfully, I backup all my stuff regularly and didn't have any critical files only on that drive, but I am now way more careful when I run my updates and upgrades.

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 17:46:15 JST phiofx

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     @double_virgule its almost certainly something related to dist-upgrade updating the bootloader. Maybe there was a prompt for selecting a partition or something to that effect.

     My strategy is dont do major upgrades until the wheels start falling off or you have plenty of time to rebuild the system :-)

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     Double_Virgule 🍁🍂 (double_virgule@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 17:46:17 JST Double_Virgule 🍁🍂

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     @phiofx I'm just curious what broke it so badly. I wouldn't have thought a dist-upgrade would have deleted my whole OS partition. 😬