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 <j...@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 <j...@zeff.us > >> <mailto:j...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
