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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have a RAID array of some sort? As other pointed out it's odd for so much data to be lost with just a hard reboot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have no clue what a RAID is to be honest. I was using a VM with 6 GB RAM to do some work in another operating system and passed through my physical hard drive (Host to Guest) to write the data on when suddenly my VM got stuck.

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