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It happens 🤷 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Just hold the power button until it gets quiet.

... shush, don't fight it, it will be over soon.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always imagine this when hard rebooting any device

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

same thought when hard rebooting the last time before formatting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah, deleting partition tables always felt a bit like (mini) scorched earth past-denying genocide. Gone but not forgotten. But also mostly forgotten. Nevertheless you legacy will live onwards through volume labels that I always use.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I know, I know... we were just not meant to be, sorry...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It could be installing updates

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You are right, but I always risk it (restore points work most of the time anyway).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Unless u have a ntfs shared drive which gets locked by windows if u don't restart (or disable fast startup for a real shutdown) so it releases the lock without having to unlock it inside Linux (and sometimes failing because it's not always locked the same)

"locked" the drive is read-only in Linux until windows unlocks it or Linux does using a tool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Unless u have a ntfs shared drive which gets locked by windows if u don't restart...

One of the main reasons why I let ot boot all the way. If nothing else, it'll mark the partition as dirty 😒. Sure, I can sudo mount my way into it, but I really have no idea if everything's OK with it. So, I have to reboot, boot into Windows, mark the partition for a consistency check, reboot, boot into Windows again so it could do the check, then reboot again and (finally!) boot into Linux 😒... I mean, just let it boot all the way the first time, it'll be over rather quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh yeah, I've had that happen to me (only the one time, like a decade ago), once I realized what gives I solved it easily with GParted 'repair' or something like that (iirc?).

Edit: ohh, I think it was a (full distro) live-boot CD that I used.