Notices by Double_Virgule ☃️❄️❄️❄️🤧😷 (double_virgule@ioc.exchange)

@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. 😬

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.

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.