I was one of them few years ago...

I’m here for a good time, not a long time

Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me

Been there, done that

Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.

My /home/$USER partition is on a separate disk. Me wicked smaht

ROFL Like, this was me on other distros just using ext4, no timeshift (made manual backups though, not as much as I should've). Now, I am understanding the hype with btrfs, Snapshots, as they have saved my ass so much. Using Garuda Linux, BTW! Sometimes a machine doesn't matter so much so...I lived life dangerously, and paid for a particularly low cost for it.

They call it disk destroyer for a reason. You gotta alias that shit.

alias dd='echo Did you triple check which device you picked? Of course not, dipshit. Check again'

It's not so crazy these days. In several years of running arch, only once has an update broken anything (and that's because I was messing around with virtual machines).

Hahahahah I need to do that lmao!!!

That was me when I first started using Linux 10 years ago. I didn’t know any of this stuff, and most of it didn’t even fucking exit. Wing it and worry later. Moral of the story, I reinstalled several times a month. Lmao

I don't keep anything important on my primary daily driver. I keep it all on my NAS and that has backups.

This is me... IDGAF

my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...

what are yall doing to brick your machines?

At least they're not waiting several months for accumulated updates! I've been told that's how you break an Arch system.

SMRT!

Snapper is sooooo nice 🤩.

Ridiculously easy to use and quickly get back into a working system! I used it first with openSUSE Tumbleweed, after the adapting to how it functions, it was easy to use. Something I cannot live without. Edit: I had to change some text because those 4am thoughts weren't lining up right.

I remember using manjaro vanilla and breaking it in a single month of use.

No aur enabled, no nothing - it just broke, it wasn't even funny

This is me!

Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I've been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.

I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.

No sweat. I prefer to reinstall and start fresh every now and then anyway.

xfs gang? 🥲

Surely double checked is enough

Lol, as someone who tried a bunch of different distros, I used the dd command a lot without ever realizing what could go wrong with it. I must have used up all my luck with that though, because somehow I ended up on manjaro of all things.

You're still using manjaro after all their drama? I jumped ship.

Right? The OP describes me (except I like to think I'm not that sweaty) and I don't remember ever having reinstalled because things were broken.

i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?

I have ext4 and dont use a separate3 home partition but I use timeshift

does btrfs finally work now?

😎

It's not. Neither is triple checking. Notice how the alias doesn't actually run dd? That's on purpose.

Separate /home is such a scam. Never have I run out of home space, but boy is 27GB not enough for a root partition that runs any kind of service.

Yeah and it's awesome. I have it making backup snapshots automatically and I copied the steamos-readonly script from valve to automatically lock everything except my home/root/var/opt etc (I realize you can remount ext4 as ro too, but still btrfs handles this well).

I recently swapped the contents of two drives of different sizes (one was a server and the other was a PC) and btrfs made the filesystem resize and expansion parts easy.

Use a modern filesystem like btrfs or even lvm with thin provisioning to solve that problem. Separate partitions for ease of backup, but they all pull from the same pool of storage.

On my PC and all my home servers I keep my root partition at 10GB and haven't had any issues (although I keep everything that isn't hardware related or a system utility in home).

On my PC I crammed arch, all of KDE (+extra KDE utilities), and some other system stuff like LACT and distrobox in the 10GB root partition and run almost everything else as a flatpak installed to home.

On my servers I do the same thing but all my services are in podman containers in /opt.

Having all the software needed to make the machine work be isolated from my custom home junk makes me feel better, and I like that I can mount root as read-only to make it immutable

Finally? It's been SUSE's default for at least a decade now. It's the default for Fedora since 33, so ~5 years ago. Btrfs has been working for a long time.

Important files go to repos / backup disks. Workstations are sinners in the hands of an angry god.

Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.

By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.

What happened?

Pfft.. it's been fine for the last 10 years.

I quadruple check and then I still don't run it because I'm too nervous so I go and do something else instead and the item remains buried on my to-do list indefinitely.

I think that there's a reasonable argument for a separate home partition on a multiuser system. Means that users can't fill up root.

But a lot of systems aren't multiuser these days.

EDIT: Honestly, my biggest partitioning irritation these days is that the Debian installer makes it a pain in the rear to have a larger /boot if you're also doing an LVM-based install; the default is unreasonably small these days.

They call it disk destroyer for a reason.

There's nothing specially destructive about dd. It's just a program that opens a file, and if you tell it to open a device file and it's got permission to write to it, it'll write to it.

You can just as easily overwrite a disk's contents with anything else that will open a file and write to it.

# cp /dev/urandom /dev/sda

will wipe your drive with random data in the same way that

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

will.

Conflicts between the project leadership and the developers. I stayed on Manjaro though, this kind of things is in fact good news: it means that people in charge care, and I think things will be better thanks to that. I'll just follow the devs if things don't go better.

Straight to jail.

'It has been 2 0 days since the last reinstall'

zloubida explained it with the link well enough. More importantly for me, the package repository seemed to stop being maintained, because many of my packages had no updates for a significant amount of time (and they had been updated elsewhere when I checked).

You missed the space between one and drive… and you accidentally capitalized a couple letters.

Don’t correct me on this one. Please.