This is why my /home has its own dedicated 2 disk md mirror The disks are physically powered off before i do a dnf upgrade of my system disk I then fix fstab to mount my /home as the very last stage!!! > On 18 Nov 2021, at 04:39, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/17/21 9:20 PM, linux guy wrote: >> Sorry, I've been using Redhat/Fedora for 20 years. Never once lost data like this. This is bad programming, period ! >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:15 PM Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx <mailto:joe@xxxxxxx>> wrote: >> On 11/17/21 6:45 PM, linux guy wrote: >> > Any chance I can recover the files ? >> I very seriously doubt it because in Linux, gone is gone. I hope I'm >> wrong here, but this is why you should never upgrade your system >> without >> first backing up your /home and anything else you consider important. > > There's always a first time. And, programming errors aren't the only causes of data loss. It doesn't take much time to back up /home and the peace of mind you get from knowing that no matter what happens your data is safe is well worth it. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
