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Have you ever committed mistakes while setting up your homelab? (self.homelab)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by tired_n_bored to c/[email protected]

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I will start first

I didn't notice my diy NAS motherboard had Pci-E Gen 2.0 (old gen) before buying it. It's not a great limitation (still 500MB/s) for the two spinning disks I have on it, but it'd be if I will decide to switch to SSDs
I cheaped out on the PSU. I bought another one without waiting for that crap to burn down so I eventually spent more
I often break the software. Sometimes I kill the OS or mess with some BTRFS pools

Sometimes I just feel not adequate for it. Does this kind of things happen to you too?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My first rm -r mistake was a hard pill to swallow... You think this only happens to others or because people don't take time to look carefully their command...

Nah... when you're experimenting new things (grep, exclude certain files, piping other commands, relative path vs absolute, sed, regex....) It can easily do some strange things you didn't expected beforehand.

But hey that's how you learn (I guess?). If everything would be perfect the first time you do something, the world would be annoying ? 😄