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(a)zeff.us> 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(a)zeff.us
<mailto:joe@zeff.us>> 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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