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1. Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 19:13:29 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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   • Lorewegian 📚
   @lore I hope he's got some backups lol
   • Lorewegian 📚 (lore@berserker.town)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 19:13:30 JST Lorewegian 📚

     my Windows sysadmin friend was assigned a Linux sysadmin task because everyone else was vacation.

     it was about resizing partitions on a VMware machine.

     he started asking me for help after he had already run resizefs on a mounted filesystem (eek!), without resizing the volume/mapper devices first (eek!), and he was trying to do this without downtime 😬

     "it's so simple to do on Windows..."