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  • colournoun@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlMm.. can someone help?
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    5 months ago

    Yes a back up is possible. Don’t back up partitions, back up the whole device. All 150+g at once.

    Whenever you try to mount the device or the filesystems, make sure to mount it read-only so that no changes are written to the device.

    Also, shrinking 84g of data into 32g is definitely not possible. Just changing the fdisk partition table doesn’t shrink or relocate the data. You need a filesystem-aware resizing tool to shrink the filesystem before shrinking the partition.

    Hopefully you can just change the partition table back to the original values and get a clean fsck.












  • It probably won’t affect Fedora because that’s already a consumer-oriented distro. For me, it’s a philosophical question. Do you want to run a distro that is supported by a company who would behave that way?

    What did you find in Fedora that you didn’t find in the other distros? Was it something about the graphical interface, or was it more about the system packaging ecosystem and developers?



  • https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GNU-Hurd-2023

    In the Debian GNU/Hurd case it’s even less practical due to the many limitations of Hurd and its primitive hardware support.

    Given the Hurd limitations, Debian GNU/Hurd is mostly practical in VMs.

    Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for i386 and can build around 65% of the Debian archive.

    Since the prior Debian GNU/Hurd release, APIC, SMP, and 64-bit support has improved a lot but is still a work-in-progress.

    Debian GNU/Hurd has improved a bit over the past decade since last time testing it but is still very much limited and niche compared to Debian GNU/Linux.