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submitted 8 months ago by callmepk@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I can't believe I'm reading that first point from a 2018 comment. I'd mock it if it was in 2006.

You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

The third one is a complete non-problem.

[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

if a partition isn't actively written to, it's less likely to suffer damage

The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

The third one is a complete non-problem.

This is only a problem with OpenBSD. They never encourage using a huge single root partition, and never test it.

It have an asterisk, not a -