What is the most stupid thing you did on linux?

Sector11 · 2017-08-15 02:10:38

bigbenaugust wrote:

I hope they never needed it.

Love it!

bigbenaugust · 2017-08-15 12:58:12

Sector11 wrote:

bigbenaugust wrote:
I hope they never needed it.
Love it!

What's more is that I transported the tapes 18km/11mi to the house and 18km back by bicycle on a weekly basis as I rotated the tapes.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cyclocross bike with a pannier full of LTO3's!

ohnonot · 2017-08-16 05:20:52

bigbenaugust wrote:

I got the boss to spring for real offsite backups a year or so before I left. Their facility was a sight nicer than the master bedroom of my house.

lol, how sad!

brontosaurusrex wrote:

Another option is no backups.

"The things you own end up owning you." - yeah i kindof agree, there clearly is a positive aspect to data loss.
but now everything I can think of is how to get my music collection & media server back, so i can listen to my favorite music while cycling...
i guess i'm owned by computers anyway, whether i do backups or not.

ohnonot · 2017-08-22 18:50:46

ohnonot wrote:

i lost data.
from now on, double backups please: internal and external.

i've started using borgbackup now, i think i like it. deduplicating.
about the double backups - the second backup to an external disk - should i do a (deduplicating) backup of all internal backups, or rather a separate (deduplicating) backup of everything else?

Addy · 2017-08-23 01:52:24

I did a partition resizing for giving a space for a new Linux installation (dualboot). It took a very long time, so I left it to went outside. But I forget to lock my room. When my mom checked my room and got my computer still on without me. She pulled off the power cord. Most of my files in media partition got corrupted.

Starborn · 2017-09-04 17:31:55

"Thanks" to my years of experience with Windows, I have become a very "conservative" computer user. Don't do it...leave it alone...it works just fine right now...it'll cause problems...

Except for wrecking my system because of my OWN ignorance (like, with Compiz, or with switching graphics cards with the wrong driver...), I must say I have never done any really stupid things.

Worth mentioning is how, back in the days I was still running Ubuntu, I wanted to try out Fedora on an empty partition I had. Although I was ab-so-lu-te-ly certain I had the correct partition...I installed Fedora over my Ubuntu install. (Long live backups!!) It was a few months before Ubuntu was going to switch to (that god-awful) Gnome 3, and since Fedora didn't work "properly" (forgot what it was), I switched to Linux Mint (and have never looked back).

As a sidenote: Ubuntu 10.04 was the finest, best, most beautiful OS that I have ever used.

Sector11 · 2017-09-04 18:10:41

@ Starborn - the following is all in good fun mind you.

Something about your post does not compute:

Except for wrecking my system because of my OWN ignorance (like, with Compiz, or with switching graphics cards with the wrong driver...), I must say
I have never done any really stupid things.

Bold is mine and illustrates my point.

And then you explained how you not only wrecked your system - you totally wioped it out. Now that classifies as "stupid thing you did on Linux" but that's just my humble opinion ... and it put's you in a club with thousands of members, most of whom prefer to remain anonymous

As a sidenote: Ubuntu 10.04 was the finest, best, most beautiful OS that I have ever used.

OK, if you say so ]:D

tknomanzr · 2017-09-04 18:44:41

If I got paid for the number of Linux installs I have totally borked, I would not have to ever work again and Bunsenlabs would have the operating funds to run forever. That is kinda the point to me, though, wreck the system up, figure out what I did wrong, then fix it. That is really how I got to where I am with Linux. However, each iteration makes me a little bit better. Installs and configuration go more quickly, etc.

My most recent mess up was kind of epic as I had finally matured a Bunsenlabs install out. What I mean by mature it out is that I finally used it as a daily driver, instead of creating testing and building instances. If you all wonder where I went for that period of time, I was actually using the distro that we all built. Well, we all know my main desktop is an absolute beast that I built myself and it does literally everything quickly, except for one thing, and that one thing is mkinitramfs. That script takes literally forever on that machine. Well, I got bored with it one day and CTRL-C'd out of the script in mid build and yep you guessed it, I had version mis-matches everywhere. I was able to chroot into it and rebuild it, but grub was totally sideways by then. I was able to get the machine rebootable, but it was never truly stable after that. So the moral of that story is, never mess with mkinitramfs, even if it takes days to complete.

Edit: I should note that I was tracking Sid on that install. Kernel upgrades are fairly common in Sid and every time a kernel upgrade came along, I would have to chroot into the machine and rebuild it. To this day, I don't really know how I hosed it, I just know I was able to get it bootable until the day I that wasn't able to any more.

I should also note that I installed Ubuntu Studio after that and ran it exactly once. Recently, since Stretch became Stable, I am able to actually run that desktop without backporting packages or tracking Sid.

Last edited by tknomanzr (2017-09-04 18:51:26)

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