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Friendly reminder to never forcebly shutdown your PC (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sourcepie@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk..

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[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t mean OPs case.

Journaling just means it knows what failed. Without CoW you will corrupt data.

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