Friendly reminder to never forcebly shutdown your PC - eviltoast

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…

  • kaitco@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    44 GB over two hours, though? If it were the last couple GBs in the last maybe 10 ten minutes, but unless the OP is running a PC from 2002, the data should have already moved from RAM to disk in that time.

    But yeah, the filesystem journal will explain what happened there.