kibasnowpaw
Well-Known Member
Yeah, most people probably do make backups I just… don’t.
I’ve lost plenty of data over the years to failing HDDs, and at some point you either start doing proper backups or you accept the risk and live with the consequences. I’m in the “accept the risk” camp.
Best example: my Ubuntu 25.10 box that runs router/firewall, Pi-hole, and DHCP. It took me six reinstalls to really understand the setup and get it exactly how I wanted. It’s been stable for about half a year now, but upgrading from 25.04 → 25.10 broke automount for my internal drives. One drive also ended up being treated like MBR at some point (so it looked like I “lost” the space beyond ~2TB until I fixed it), and on top of that the boot timing changed so the system kept trying to mount the disks before they were actually ready.
I could have wiped it and reinstalled (again), but I didn’t feel like rebuilding the whole stack. So I did the boring, reliable fix: I bypassed fstab and wrote a mount script + systemd oneshot service that waits for /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 to appear, then mounts them. No drama, no race condition, and it’s been working consistently since.
So yeah backups are the sensible workflow. My workflow is more like: learn the hard way, document it, then automate the fix so I never have to think about it again.
