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> in the middle of monthly backups
> get cranky at system refusing to delete old files from trash and claiming the disk is full
> accidentally wipes external hard drive for backups in hissy fit
(whoops)
> spends the rest of an unplanned sunday evening trying not to sweat as i figure out how to reformat/image/mount an external hard drive totally from scratch on a new OS :D;;;;
man o man am i really glad i fucked around in gparted back in the great Asus DualBoot Debacle so at least i recognized Half Of These Words
(technically if shit hits the fan i still have my legacy files from the old laptop but at this point that's like a year out of date so there'd be A Lot lost.)
i gotta say tho, even if it's slightly stressful to not Know(tm) how to do half of this shit, i really love the sense of actually having to use brain cells in linux and not just click-clicky-ing on an app or two to do all the hard work for me ... i don't pretend that i'm doing like, bare metal 1334 hacking, but every time something like this happens i learn a staggering amount of cool stuff of 'why is this named /sda' or 'why does fat32 a thing'. it feels like i'm owning a car and actually taking piece by piece of the engine apart to fix it instead of paying a vendor XX to do it.
the powers of ownin' yer shit!! etc
> get cranky at system refusing to delete old files from trash and claiming the disk is full
> accidentally wipes external hard drive for backups in hissy fit
(whoops)
> spends the rest of an unplanned sunday evening trying not to sweat as i figure out how to reformat/image/mount an external hard drive totally from scratch on a new OS :D;;;;
man o man am i really glad i fucked around in gparted back in the great Asus DualBoot Debacle so at least i recognized Half Of These Words
(technically if shit hits the fan i still have my legacy files from the old laptop but at this point that's like a year out of date so there'd be A Lot lost.)
i gotta say tho, even if it's slightly stressful to not Know(tm) how to do half of this shit, i really love the sense of actually having to use brain cells in linux and not just click-clicky-ing on an app or two to do all the hard work for me ... i don't pretend that i'm doing like, bare metal 1334 hacking, but every time something like this happens i learn a staggering amount of cool stuff of 'why is this named /sda' or 'why does fat32 a thing'. it feels like i'm owning a car and actually taking piece by piece of the engine apart to fix it instead of paying a vendor XX to do it.
the powers of ownin' yer shit!! etc
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hope the food poisoning got better btw!!! (if it makes you all warm and fuzzy, just sent out your christmas card today. :3 )
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