I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.
I’ve got the usual forgetting the . in lines like this:
$ rm -rf ./bin
As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.
You know, the war stories.
Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.
Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects folder has been deleted like… just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.
“I have 200 GB of unused space in the windows partition, I’ll just plug a live CD, divide that partition and merge it with the Linux one, ggez”
Yes, dividing the windows partition destroyed it. Yes, mixing the windows and ext destroyed Linux. I might have been able to recover something but I was like 18 and I just reinstalled windows in a fit of misdirected anger against Linux.
Don’t do that. Best option is to run windows in a VM. Second best option is to shrink windows in windows and the boot to a live system to grow linux
No shit, now I daily drive Linux and I just have two separate drives for each, with some extra drives for games and files and such. That was 10-ish years ago.