Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

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It is also a bit risky to to just give your whole /home to a
application when it probably contains lots uf subdirectories with
valuable data.
I would have created a /home/dnf supbir and use that as downloaddir.

Cheers,

Marcel

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 08:53:43AM +0000, Andy Paterson via users wrote:
> 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.
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