For the last few days, I've been having quirky problems with my KDE desktop. Things would randomly reset, menu entries would appear/disappear. Nothing major, but enough to annoy the daylights out of me.
I decided I was going to reinstall the entire system, switch filesystems from reiserfs to ext3, and hopefully clean up these problems. I was going to totally delete my KDE configuration and start from scratch.
What I had forgotten...is that all my files (/home) wasn't on it's own partition anymore. I did my re-install and discovered (actually, I remembered) that I'd copied all of /home to / (the partition I'd just wiped clean and installed).
I lost all my mail from the past three years, quite a few handy desktop shortcuts, all my chat logs, and a few other odd things I'm sure I'll think of in a while.
I also lost the few music videos I had...but all my music and all the episodes of Full Metal Alchemist were safe.
I've got my desktop restored to semi-normal, but it's just not the same without all the clutter of crap in /home/john
*laugh* I did say I wanted to start fresh...I just didn't want to be this fresh.
2 comments:
Didn't you once loose a giant partition of MP3 files to a over-zealous Win XP install?
I'm really, really, going to have to teach you backup/archive to DVD ROM skills.
Also, what incited a switch from Reiser to Ext3? Not favoring one or the other myself, but just curious. Seems like Reiser is falling downhill.
I did. This loss was entirely my fault.
As for backing up to DVD...when you wanna buy me the writer, I'll back it all up. Normally, I do have a backup of my home directory...but I'd deleted it during a bunch of partition resizing.
Oh well. I needed to clean things up anyways.
As for ext3 vs reiser, yeah, well, reiser3 is data loss happy during crashes and reiser4 may have seen it's last solid development with the arrest of Hans Reiser on the suspicion of killing his estranged wife.
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