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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 21:04:59 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   type of girlthing who just ran a script that did `mv */* .` in its $HOME several times

   yes, i am completely fucked

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 21:07:23 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     by "just now" i mean a few hours ago, and by "completely fucked" i mean that i have 3871 (at least) files left to sort manually, out of more than 8000

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 21:10:31 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     most of these things are version-controlled and replicated at least once (and i didn't lose any .git directories because */* doesn't select them), which is why i don't really do backups (except for really important stuff like contracts and evidence and so on); when your code is almost entirely open-source and globally distributed it feels wrong to waste space and time copying it over slow (compared to hundreds of GB of checkouts) WiFi in a cronjob

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     Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 21:10:39 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     @whitequark This is the sort of thing that'd make me restore a backup.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 21:10:39 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Jernej Simončič �

     @jernej__s don't have one

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 23:25:20 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     at a rate of about 200/hour i will be here for quite a while

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     James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:02:56 JST James Just James

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     @whitequark I have a file named -i in my home directory.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:32:51 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • James Just James

     @purpleidea ... good idea, but would not help me here

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:32:53 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark even for things with no back up, i personally run 15-minutely btrbk btrfs snapshots with decaying retention for earlier files. snapshots like these take minimal time to create and help with being able to create backup in a more consistent state

     i will probably switch to zfs for my next computer/drive, whichever comes first, but the principle is the same.

     ofc this depends on fs support. i'm not aware if lvm is capable of doing this on a block dev but it sounds sketchy

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     James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:33:33 JST James Just James

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     @whitequark I know, sorry. You'll be ready for next time!

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:35:50 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dramforever oh this is a fantastic idea. lvm should be able to do it and i already use it

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:42:58 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark i found some anecdote that "thin-provisioned LVM snapshots" work well. i don't know if you can smoothly start using this

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:50:05 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dramforever i just checked and i can convert my existing LV to a thin one on the fly. my one concern is that corruption of the thin metadata volume might cause extremely severe data loss

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:53:13 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dramforever i think i want RAID1 for the thin metadata via LVM RAID, which should be at least somewhat repairable

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:54:09 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark that makes sense, and also matches my haven't-ever-used-lvm intuition that it seems a bit sketchy...

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:58:35 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever LVM has been incredibly reliable for me so it doesn't worry me a lot; I worry about drives