Thanks, everyone. All of this information is fantastic. I need to learn a
lot to put it into use, but I am an optimist ...
--Nancy
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:23 PM Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:12:00 -0500
> Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > I don't sysadmin professionally anymore, but
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:50:16 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Krawitz wrote:
> Are you referring to the unwritten/delayed extents bug
> (e. g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223332)? That was
> fixed over 3 years ago
>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:33:22 -0400
Marco Milano wrote:
> > Avoid ext4 for anything important if at all possible.
>
> Why?
Because there is a flaw (or possibly several) in the ext4 extents
mechanism which, when tripped, causes extent corruption and data loss.
fsck will *not* repair an ext4
On 10/25/18 4:22 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
Avoid ext4 for anything important if at all possible.
Why?
-- Marco
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:12:00 -0500
Derek Martin wrote:
> I don't sysadmin professionally anymore, but when I did, I also
> preferred the same solutiion as Rich: Don't back up OS and software,
> do a fresh install. And I still prefer that. It's usually faster and
> easier, and it also gives
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 08:53:01PM -0400, Nancy Allison wrote:
> I have Fedora 28 and lots of programs installed. I use a backup for my
> files, but I dread the day I have to start with a new computer and
> reinstall all my programs.
>
> Is it possible to create a copy of everything, my Fedora 28
