Re: The Trials and Tribulations of LostKnight
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:23 pm
Belay that ...LostKnight wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:21 pm I am not dead, I am not gone!
I am just temporarily at a disadvantage
Computer harddrive crashed.
Must get a new one and re-install Linux and restore from my backups.
14 years of using Linux out of 39 years using a computer - started with a C-64, and something I have NEVER heard of before happened.
I plugged in a USB stick and ran Linux from that for the day.
Just before bed I plugged my phone into the computer as I wanted to check some images on my phone.
File manager pops up and I see:
/boot
/home
/home/sector11
/media/5
/media/10
/media/11
- of course there were "coded" but looking in them I knew what they were.
All my files where there ...
- clicked the menu on the USB Linux - told it to reboot the system.
- pulled the USB stick as soon as it shutdown
- a second later the startup process took over.
- GRUB shows the Debian boot screen ...
BINGO! I'm back ....
With all the searching I did yesterday on:
- crashed HDD
- HDD reports "busy"
- and what ever -
- - - NOTHING - all indicaters suggested the HDD was gone and ways to get files off it with long tedious processes. Why? I have great backups.
It takes very little time and my computer is usable while doing it:
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08 Feb 21 @ 13:17:53 ~
$ s11bk
Syncing /home
to /media/sector11/disk/S11-Feb/
Syncing /media/5/
to /media/sector11/disk/M5/
Syncing /media/10/
to /media/sector11/disk/M10/
Syncing /media/11/
to /media/sector11/disk/M11/
1. Syncing Complete
2. Unmount /media/sector11/disk? (Y|n)
Unmounting /media/sector11/disk,
wait until the blue light
stops flashing and the terminal prompt
To remove a directory
use r m command: -f -r /media/sector11/disk/S11-MONTH
08 Feb 21 @ 13:20:15 ~
$ Not to bad - ±2.5 minutes
Have a GREAT day folks - see you in game.
Maybe Linux was mad because Sox is here? We are now on PP&PP!
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