I have some very sad news for all my fellow Steelers fans.
During my ongoing attempt to setup raid0 with two sata drives in my linux box I accidently wiped out my ide drive that held all my torrents. Every single game, the Big Ben interview on Letterman and the preseason games, all gone. Forever.
Sadly I also lost all Naruto episodes, my entire music collection that I've been ripping from CD to ogg as well as some other files that are irreplaceable.
Let this be a warning to all Linux users that "rm -rf" should be used with EXTREME CARE!
Don't use it when your fighting the flu and utterly tired.
The tracker will remain down until the preseason starts and I have those games ready.
Posted by Muddy at May 28, 2005 01:58 PM | TrackBackThis is where I should mention that I told you to back up to a removable media.
Posted by: skywalker at May 29, 2005 04:51 AMOuch! Salt in an open wound.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at May 29, 2005 08:58 AMI did back up my hda / and /home stuff wise ass.
It never even crossed my mind i could fsck up hdb.
Posted by: muddy at May 29, 2005 10:08 AMwow losing all your data. that is pretty shocking and exactly why i dont use linux, LOL. not that windows is any better, [knocks on wood] i just dont want to try to load linux on my array. maybe one of these days ill get get a new hd and use a smaller one for linux, but not until then.
and how were you trying to "setup" an array? were you trying to add a new drive to mirror/build what was on the other drive, or were you trying to raid 2 new disk and accidently delted the wrong drive?.
mooseboy: I've been using linux for 9 years. I've never lost data. On the other hand, in the 15 years I've using DOS/Windows systems I've lost all my data COUNTLESS times.
He lost his data because he did something stupid. And the only data he lost was videos of football games, hardly mission critical.
Posted by: skywalker at May 29, 2005 05:42 PMActually I lost some priceless stuff that was far more important to me and my family than football games or whatever. Sooo... it was huge to me.
Posted by: Muddy at May 29, 2005 06:40 PMWell, no offense, baby, but as long as our pics are safe then I'm ok. I mean, really....those are what are truely and *completely* irreplaceable. If something ever *did* happen to them....well, all I can say is that some very bad - yet justifiable - things would happen that even a court of law would not hold me responsible for.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at May 29, 2005 07:44 PMyea i cant imagine what its like losing the drive. ive had a few heart attack scares here and there with "truncated file systems" and disk corruption errors, but luckily never lost the whole drive. i know what you mean by irreplacable. all those pr0n movies youve been hiding from your wife, im sure you had a few dozens GBs of precious movies and pics. :D
Posted by: mooseboy84 at May 29, 2005 08:45 PM"...all those pr0n movies youve been hiding from your wife,..."
*Gasp* Which "pron" movies has he told you about!? The ones off the cable channels or the ones that *I've* made!? Oh no! I've said too much!:-P
Posted by: mrs. muddy at May 29, 2005 09:46 PMuh... mooseboy84 I can 100% say your incorrect.
Posted by: Muddy at May 29, 2005 11:45 PM