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    [โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    See, this is why BTRFS is a good idea.

    I borked one of my installs today by accident. I'm not even sure what happened... I upgraded the kernel, then weird things started happening, then X just froze, I restarted, runit would't even go to phase 3 of the boot process, X couldn't load, just gave a bunch of errors. Oh well, BTRFS to the rescue ๐Ÿ˜Š. This is where things get interesting ๐Ÿ˜‚.

    I was on the phone with my wife while I was trying to bring back a snapshot of the volume... have no idea what I did, but I managed to wipe the root subvolume ๐Ÿ˜‚. Not like just empty, but completely gone ๐Ÿคฃ. OK ๐Ÿ˜ฌ. Let's see if the snapshots are still there. Yep, still there. OK, recreated the subvolume and tried to load a snapshot of it, this time, wuthout talking on my phone ๐Ÿ˜‚. Worked like a charm ๐Ÿ˜Š. Restart, sure enough, it loads grub and the OS, everything's back to normal ๐Ÿ˜Š.

    Start using filesystems that can make snapshots, like BTRFS or ZFS. Sure, they have a bit of a learning curve, but trust me, it's worth it.